[Zope] - How was www.zope.org created?

[Kent Polk]

Hi Paul (Paul Everitt), in <613145F79272D211914B0020AFF64019049DB1@gandalf.digicool.com> on Jan 14 you wrote:

> How did we automate it?  We told it to get the items in the menu from a
[...]
> 
> Warning, hack ahead.
> 
> Each sidebar item has three pieces of information: the label, the URL,
> and whether it should be indented.  Since the folder property shamefully
> only allows lines of strings, these pieces of information are separated
> by a vertical bar | symbol, then a (gag) string.split is done on them.
> The sidebar document also looks at the PATH_INFO to see if the current
> URL is on the menu item.
> 
> Now that TinyTables has been released by Grand Master Flash and the
> Furious Funk (Ty Sarna with inspiration provided by Kent Polk), there is
> a much better way to do it.

Amen, Brother! The Heathen have Seen the Light of Knowledge!  Or... Reason!
(or maybe it was those stakes with ropes attached that Paul saw me driving
into that fireant mound)

Stay Tuned for More Adventures of Web Ninja!
Kent