On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:01:46 -0700, Loren Stafford wrote:
On sites like www.zope.org, I think there's a need for a what might be called a "community glossary", which is what you would expect of a glossary, but has these additional characteristics:
<snip> Actually, Loren, such a Zope product is on my list of things to do, and probably on other people's as well, right behind my 'equation tile' product (which is almost done). I think it would be of very general use -- I want it for a web site I'm setting up on micro-robots, which brings together people from diverse technical backgrounds. The glossary would define mechanical, electrical, aerodynamic, materials terminology, so that the pages that make up the site would contain links to the definitions. In my plan, the definitions can also contain an optional image, to better show a concept or physical part. The product will be opensource and I'll announce it here when I'm further along, to get feedback. Oh, and the equation tiles are a product for dropping little GIF images of equations into pages, for engineering discussions. -Jeff Rush
At 7:40 AM -0500 9/29/99, Jeff Rush wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:01:46 -0700, Loren Stafford wrote:
On sites like www.zope.org, I think there's a need for a what might be called a "community glossary", which is what you would expect of a glossary, but has these additional characteristics:
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I think it would be of very general use -- I want it for a web site I'm setting up on micro-robots, which brings together people from diverse technical backgrounds. The glossary would define mechanical, electrical, aerodynamic, materials terminology, so that the pages that make up the site would contain links to the definitions. In my plan, the definitions can also contain an optional image, to better show a concept or physical part.
[...] Just a comment that when somebody is working on such a product there is also a need/desire for glossary items that link outside of the site they are a part of. Userland's Frontier does this by assessing anything in quotes. Thus, "Zope" becomes <A HREF="http://www.zope.org">Zope</A> in the rendering of the page. I find this kind of mechanism especially easy for authors and content providers to use. I don't know enough about the processing of DTML methods/documents to know if this is practical. Josh # # # _____________________________________________ Joshua Brauer Box 915 http://www.brauer.org Fort Collins, CO 80522 Fax: (419) 793-4120 _____________________________________________ In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900 _____________________________________________________
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