>>>> "Vin" == Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
>>>> On 27 Jul 2000, Adrian Aichner
<aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> said:
APA> I'd like to get some feedback
from people surfing
APA>
http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/
APA> So far I have NONE.
Vin> 1. Clicking on the "Mailing List Archives" link yielded:
Vin> The requested URL /Lists/Archive/index.cgi was not found on
Vin> this server.
Yes, this is not done at all.
Vin> Similarly, following the link to "Join the xemacs-beta mailing
Vin> list" yielded:
Vin> The requested URL /Lists/index.html was not found on this
Vin> server.
Vin> It looks like all of the /Lists links are dead.
Yep.
Vin> 2. I notice the footers all claim to be part of
http://www.xemacs.org
Vin> (and indeed points there), but that's not really correct. I'm
Vin> confused about this because the link at the top left of every page
Vin> says
www.xemacs.org, but it points to sourceforge.
Yes. We're currently sitting between the chairs.
I am concerned that using
<base
href="http://www.xemacs.org/">
in template.html (all page contents get wrapped into this template) is more a curse than a
blessing.
I have changed it to
<base
href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/">
for the sourceforge site.
AFAIK, "base href" is a feature to be used when web documents are sent
off via e-mail, to provide a base for all relative links.
Using this feature as a means of website design is an error, I believe.
It is the cause for all the broken links in "Architecting XEmacs".
All local links in these documents are suddenly taken to be relative to
<base
href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/">
not to
http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/Architecting XEmacs
Throwing out
<base
href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/">
is a tedious task, which perl would probably do for me.
I would like to get some feedback from yall, especially the ones who
decided to use
<base
href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/">
What was the motivation?
Best regards,
Adrian
Vin> 3. It looks like all of the links on Architecting XEmacs are dead.
Vin> Thanks for doing this, Adrian.
Vin> - vin