Re: TFM on the Web

Alister Air (baitoven@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au)
Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:34:07 +1100 (EST)

On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Joshua Graham Pitcher wrote:

> 2. Every progsoc member had access to ftoomsh, so why not make the TFM
> pages accessible from ftoomsh only?

This has come up a couple of times... how do you mean accessable from
ftoomsh only? I mean, are you talking about something like netscape run
from ftoomsh accounts through X-Windows? Or is that just me?

Cos people might like to access TFM from an ITD PC or Mac, with their
netscape installations runnig separately from any telnet session.

TFM should be on the web. This strikes me as logical, but it should also
be paper-based (cos I like playing with books, and also I may want to
check something in TFM while I'm not sitting at my computer). Why can't
passwords be taken from our ftoomsh accounts? I *think* the security
argument's been taken care of (ie, anything else is just as insecure).
Would it invlove heaps more work? Can suckers... I mean, helpful
people... be found to help out with the implementation?

> 3. The core of TFM needs to be developed platform-independantly, otherwise
> the two publications will undoubtably become different. Could we
> sacrifice some of the fancy formatting in the printed version and use
> converters as outlined elsewhere? Another option would be to have
> all chapters submitted as text only, then have two formatting teams -
> the Web team and the printed team - to produce the finished

I vote of everything submitted text-only! Cos then you find a good HTML
layout team, and a good paper layout team, and you get a good manual,
with consistant layout all the way through.

> I would be happy to help with the web implementation.

Yes. So woould I.

Alister

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