From kde-devel Mon Jul 26 12:17:57 1999 From: Lars Kneschke Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:17:57 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: RFC: Midgard or Zope on the KDE server? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93299142303529 Boris Povazay wrote: > > The KDE-Standard-Website-Project is currently going full-steam ahead. > > Right now we are facing a problem with the use of templates. Since KDE > (kfm) is not supporting HTML4.0 in every detail (as all the other > browsers do), it is impossible to include external Textfragments in the > straight-forward way of using the feature. > > There exist other ways, apart of a feature change in KDE, to achieve > this: > The fist is the idea of L.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de, who tries to > include these with a tiny program (see: KreateProjectHomepage at > http://ipp387.ipp.kfa-juelich.de/~leon) > The second is to use an application server like Midgard (strongly > advocated by Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) or Zope, which are both released > unter the GPL (in different flavors) and would allow to modify content > via a web-interface by the developer (user). I´m personally interested in Zope, because i read some nice things about it. There is also a articel at http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1999/08/064/ about Zope. (in german only) It looks very interesting. > The later would recommend to have the application server installed > centrally (at the kde-site: http://devel-home.kde.org/) which could be > mirrored to other sites. > This does have some benefits (easy, independent manipulation of design > and content, web interface...) but also some drawbacks (central > organisation, centralized traffic, no basic HTML,...) > > Now I wonder if there exists the ability and interest to host maintain > and use such a system. I could help to administer it, because i work at a internet provider. > This could help to let us (programers, designers and content > contributors) work together easier and a bit tighter to attract more > public attention and with it helpers. It would then also be easier to > notice if there are similar efforts, which then could be sooner > integrated! > > ciao BoP > -- > http://kde.jouh.at - bp@jouh.at > DI Boris Povazay -- Lars Kneschke NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany Fon: +49 431 386435 00 -- Fax: +49 431 386435 99