SqueakMap shaping up...

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Aug 15 12:50:58 UTC 2002


goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> 
> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > > A screenshot feature would increase the coolness factor, as would a script
> > > generated front page with the top ten downloads or some such. Or the front
> > > page could rotate a list of eye-candy-type entries to make it more
> > > interesting. Cf. www.c64.com or http://tiktok.demon.co.uk/mame/ ;-)
> >
> > Eeek!  Please, no "eye candy".
> >
> > I like the clean layout, and appreciate a utility that will let me find
> > something quickly without any annoying distractions.
> 
> Yes, I also like "clean HTML" with no fuss whatsoever. I will perhaps
> make it look a tad better but essentially it was intended to be as clean
> as possible. I would like to get Scamper to like it for example.

I looked at the SqueakAmp page and noticed that the description uses
a <pre> tag. This causes the lines to run way out of the windows when
the text 
is without cr (or is that lf). This is in Navigator 4.7 on mac.

> I agree that the screenshot/thumbnail-thingy should not be on the
> frontpage.
> 
> Another thing btw - there is nothing stopping anyone from opening up a
> "local" web UI on the local slave map. Well, that would need another
> changeset with Comanche but otherwise it works fine. But you could "mess
> it up" by modifying it - the slave is (to begin with) intended as a pure
> slave mirror.

I think there should be nice to have diffrent access for diffrent
audience. 
Squeak is for kids of all ages, so a cool page will not hurt :-)

Karl



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