Gentoo Archives: www-redesign

From: Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:27:33
Message-Id: 438A40D7.70300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [www-redesign] Advertisement bar by Blackace
1 Blackace wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:20 -0500, Curtis Napier wrote:
3 >
4 >>I thought of that too. The problem is that I would have to add a new
5 >>function to the href's parser and I'm not sure I want to add anymore
6 >>complexity than we have too. Not to mention the href parser won't work
7 >>on hard coded links in the menus and jumppads, only on dynamically
8 >>created ones from xml files. This means if you turn off the ads then
9 >>click a link in the menu the ads come back but if you click a link
10 >>within the content area the ads will stay off. This is inconsistant
11 >>behaviour and not really something I would want to do. Changing the href
12 >>parser to work on the menu links wouldn't be an easy task. I would have
13 >>to think about how to do that and experiment a little.
14 >
15 >
16 > It may now be a moot point, but I don't think you understand what I
17 > meant, it is extremely simple to do and works exactly like full=1 or
18 > style=printable, etc., I still don't know what you mean by "href parser"
19 > or adding a new function to it, and yes if you click a link you change
20 > the current page and the ads come back...the same thing will happen with
21 > javascript unless you use cookies and technically you could use cookies
22 > this way as well, but cookies aren't something I think we would ever
23 > want to use anyways, so doing it in XSL would still give you the same
24 > effect as javascript, without javascript.
25 >
26
27 I understood exactly what you meant. I think you are the one who didn't
28 understand what I meant. But as you said, it's a moot point now. ;-)
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