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Luca Bruno

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Aug 20, 2008, 8:34:34 AM8/20/08
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Hello,
after Syx code has been moved to repo.or.cz, the google code page is used only as homepage.
Google code now only holds information about the project.
Since syx.netsons.org is hosting the documentation, I was thinking to make a better good-looking homepage for holding such information.
I think a new homepage could organize pages better.

What do you think? Is it better to keep sticking with Google code?

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rahul

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Aug 20, 2008, 2:10:09 PM8/20/08
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| Hello,
| after Syx code has been moved to repo.or.cz, the google code page is used only as homepage.
| Google code now only holds information about the project.
| Since syx.netsons.org is hosting the documentation, I was thinking to make a better good-looking homepage for holding such information.
| I think a new homepage could organize pages better.
|
| What do you think? Is it better to keep sticking with Google code?

Perhaps you could keep the syx googlecode page as another front-end, but
redirect all links to syx.netsons.org. (I like googlecode as it is a
simple place to remember)

| http://syx.googlecode.com - Smalltalk YX
| http://lethalman.blogspot.com - Thoughts about computer technologies
| http://www.ammazzatecitutti.org - Ammazzateci tutti
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Luca Bruno

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Aug 20, 2008, 2:36:39 PM8/20/08
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:40:09 +0530
rahul <blu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps you could keep the syx googlecode page as another front-end, but
> redirect all links to syx.netsons.org. (I like googlecode as it is a
> simple place to remember)

Yes, also because until the new homepage is completely reindexed by search engines and other pages we can't drop it.
A redirect will be fine forever :)
You can find the work here:
http://repo.or.cz/w/syx.git?a=tree;f=website;hb=website

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Lethalman

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Aug 20, 2008, 5:29:21 PM8/20/08
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Uploaded: http://syx.netsons.org
I'm using netsons because it's already hosting the documentation. Feel
free to suggest any other solutions.

ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 21, 2008, 12:00:03 PM8/21/08
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It is not a free account right?

The downside of Google Code is that you can't host a custom web site.
But it is fine if you don't have a custom web site :) If you are
thinking of creating a web site like Io's or GNU Smalltalk's then it
would be a good idea to move to a serious hosting solution, otherwise
I would suggest sticking with Google Code because it provides a nice
mailing list and enough opportunities for such young projects, for
free. Also maintaining a custom web site will bring more duties onto
your shoulders.

Luca Bruno

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Aug 21, 2008, 3:05:26 PM8/21/08
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It is not a free account right?
>

It is.

> The downside of Google Code is that you can't host a custom web site.
> But it is fine if you don't have a custom web site :) If you are
> thinking of creating a web site like Io's or GNU Smalltalk's then it
> would be a good idea to move to a serious hosting solution

Once Syx grows we'll need to host packages and so on, it's not the time for that,
but I think it's good to change stuff sometimes ;)

> , otherwise
> I would suggest sticking with Google Code because it provides a nice
> mailing list and enough opportunities for such young projects, for
> free.

Mailing list and issue tracker are still there :)

> Also maintaining a custom web site will bring more duties onto
> your shoulders.
>

It's only an HTML website for information, documentation and downloads, nothing more.

What you think?
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rahul

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Aug 21, 2008, 3:47:13 PM8/21/08
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> It's only an HTML website for information, documentation and downloads, nothing more.
>
> What you think?

I like the yellow color theme, The font in gray boxes looks a tad too
large. But otherwise nice.

Luca Bruno

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Aug 21, 2008, 3:59:04 PM8/21/08
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:17:13 +0530
rahul <blu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the yellow color theme, The font in gray boxes looks a tad too
> large. But otherwise nice.

Thanks very much, I'm _absolutely_ not good with graphics. Feel free to suggest a size, I'm using 1.2em, I thought it wasn't so big, maybe because I like large font sizes :) 1.1em is not so bad, can you try?

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Lethalman

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Aug 21, 2008, 4:55:16 PM8/21/08
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Added screenshots: http://syx.netsons.org/screenshots.html
And a simple row with the status of the project in homepage:
http://syx.netsons.org/index.html

ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 22, 2008, 4:20:49 AM8/22/08
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On 21 Ağustos, 22:05, Luca Bruno <lethalma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is not a free account right?
>
> It is.
>

I don't suggest using it then. You can never rely on free hosting/
domain providers.


> Once Syx grows we'll need to host packages and so on, it's not the time for that,
> but I think it's good to change stuff sometimes ;)
>

I agree with that. I like changing things, too. Even if it is
working :D


>
> Mailing list and issue tracker are still there :)
>

But the web site is too much broken into pieces. Web site is on
syx.netsons.org, code is on repo.or.cz, mailing list is on
groups.google.com/group/syx-discuss etc...


>
> It's only an HTML website for information, documentation and downloads, nothing more.
>
> What you think?

The design can certainly be improved but the important thing in the
first place is usefullness and it looks promising. Another suggestion
I can make is using a dynamic way to create the site (PHP or a script
written in another language to compile things). Using plain HTML will
be too painful as the web site grows. There is a Python script in the
repository but I don't know what it does yet, maybe it is a script
which creates the web site dynamically?

Oh also, if you want the web site to look the same on every computer,
I suggest using pixels or puntos instead of em. Because em is a
magnitude relative to the user settings. It may look different on
different computers. It is used for accesibility, I guess (A web site
with too much text on it may leave it to the user to enlarge or shrink
the text for his/her eyes health, for example.).

Luca Bruno

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Aug 22, 2008, 6:33:37 AM8/22/08
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:20:49 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't suggest using it then. You can never rely on free hosting/
> domain providers.
>

Google code is free hosting and I couldn't rely on the SVN repository.
So I can't rely on its wiki too which sometimes is under maintainance for entire days.
I think free hosting is good for a static website until the project grows.
Once we get a real hosting it's worth making a big all-in-one website, and it needs time for being both created and maintained.

> But the web site is too much broken into pieces. Web site is on
> syx.netsons.org, code is on repo.or.cz, mailing list is on
> groups.google.com/group/syx-discuss etc...
>

Many projects has an homepage on a place and a project page elsewhere.
Why is this a problem?


> The design can certainly be improved but the important thing in the
> first place is usefullness and it looks promising. Another suggestion
> I can make is using a dynamic way to create the site (PHP or a script
> written in another language to compile things).
> Using plain HTML will
> be too painful as the web site grows.

There's no need for dynamic languages for information pages, maintaining it is not so painful with some scripts.

> There is a Python script in the
> repository but I don't know what it does yet, maybe it is a script
> which creates the web site dynamically?
>

It replaces the header and the footer of all web pages ;)

> Oh also, if you want the web site to look the same on every computer,
> I suggest using pixels or puntos instead of em. Because em is a
> magnitude relative to the user settings. It may look different on
> different computers. It is used for accesibility, I guess (A web site
> with too much text on it may leave it to the user to enlarge or shrink
> the text for his/her eyes health, for example.).

I care about accessibility. Aren't "em" relative to the parent font size? The font size is fixed in pixels in the body css.
Maybe I'm wrong.

Waiting for a reply :)

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ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 22, 2008, 11:38:19 AM8/22/08
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On 22 Ağustos, 13:33, Luca Bruno <lethalma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren't "em" relative to the parent font size? The font size is fixed in pixels in the body css.
> Maybe I'm wrong.
>

Ah yes, I didn't look at the css. Yes, if you define the body font
size as a fixed size then there is no problem (because all em sizes
are relative to its parent tag and body is the parent of all).

All others were just suggestions, so it depends on choice of course :)

Luca Bruno

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Aug 22, 2008, 2:34:41 PM8/22/08
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Ah yes, I didn't look at the css. Yes, if you define the body font
> size as a fixed size then there is no problem (because all em sizes
> are relative to its parent tag and body is the parent of all).
>

Wow then I'm starting to understand something on CSS :P

> All others were just suggestions, so it depends on choice of course :)

I'm open to all suggestions, you all know. We were discussing, the website hasn't been announced yet.
If you really want to do something different, continue discussing. You can begin initiatives and make patches as you like.

blufox, do you see big fonts still after the fixed font-size commit? It's ok to me to drop it from 12em to 11em in gray boxes.

Let me know!!

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rahul

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Aug 22, 2008, 3:42:12 PM8/22/08
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> I'm open to all suggestions, you all know. We were discussing, the website hasn't been announced yet.
> If you really want to do something different, continue discussing. You can begin initiatives and make patches as you like.
>
> blufox, do you see big fonts still after the fixed font-size commit? It's ok to me to drop it from 12em to 11em in gray boxes.
>
> Let me know!!

Yes, I certainly like the font size better now.

Does your hosting provider allow you to run CGI's ? If they do,
perhaps it would be interesting to do the backend with Syx as a
fastcgi server? or some thing like this
http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/mod_lisp.html ?
(I would be very interested, but will need a lot of guidance like you
did of X :) )

Luca Bruno

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:12:12 +0530
rahul <blu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I certainly like the font size better now.
>

Ok, any other suggestions are welcome.

> Does your hosting provider allow you to run CGI's ? If they do,
> perhaps it would be interesting to do the backend with Syx as a
> fastcgi server? or some thing like this
> http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/mod_lisp.html ?
> (I would be very interested, but will need a lot of guidance like you
> did of X :) )

I thought about CGI already, I've been searching for a free CGI hosting for a couple of weeks with no luck.

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Lethalman

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Aug 22, 2008, 4:23:55 PM8/22/08
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Ok added both install: http://syx.netsons.org/install.html
and documentation: http://syx.netsons.org/documentation.html

I've created a repository for debian until it's not in unstable.

Waiting for critiques :)

Lethalman

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Aug 22, 2008, 7:40:09 PM8/22/08
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I'll be glade if you hint me something to put instead of my blog:
http://syx.netsons.org/community.html
Or if you want we can keep it ;)

rahul

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Aug 23, 2008, 2:24:09 AM8/23/08
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>
> Ok, any other suggestions are welcome.
>
One silly observation,

The syx graphics at the top looks _very_ grainy and takes about 10
seconds to load in my
comp. (the rest of the page loads under 1 sec).

Luca Bruno

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Aug 23, 2008, 4:18:01 AM8/23/08
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You're right, it's because the logo is big and about 250 KB :P I have to shrink the image.

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ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 23, 2008, 5:58:00 AM8/23/08
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The grainyness is because of shrinking of the image by the browser. If
you look at the original images like:

http://syx.netsons.org/images/community-ml.png
or
http://syx.netsons.org/images/syx-logo.png

you can see that it is actually not grainy and bigger. I don't know,
though, why the images are shrinked, maybe table cells are too small?

Luca Bruno

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The grainyness is because of shrinking of the image by the browser. If
> you look at the original images like:
>
> http://syx.netsons.org/images/community-ml.png
> or
> http://syx.netsons.org/images/syx-logo.png
>
> you can see that it is actually not grainy and bigger. I don't know,
> though, why the images are shrinked, maybe table cells are too small?
>

I shrink them in the CSS. I can see them normally, I'm using gecko and they look good with webkit too.


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ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 23, 2008, 12:09:15 PM8/23/08
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Actually; using CSS, style attribute or width/height attributes, all
leave it to the browser to resize the image and this leads to
different resizing quality between different browser engines and they
are usually not good. That's why it is suggested to shrink them on an
image editor like GIMP or Photoshop.

By the way, I also realised that round corners are not shown in Opera
browser.

On 23 Ağustos, 13:08, Luca Bruno <lethalma...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
>
> ZuLuuuuuu <canol.go...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The grainyness is because of shrinking of the image by the browser. If
> > you look at the original images like:
>
> >http://syx.netsons.org/images/community-ml.png
> > or
> >http://syx.netsons.org/images/syx-logo.png
>
> > you can see that it is actually not grainy and bigger. I don't know,
> > though, why the images are shrinked, maybe table cells are too small?
>
> I shrink them in the CSS. I can see them normally, I'm using gecko and they look good with webkit too.
>
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Luca Bruno

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Actually; using CSS, style attribute or width/height attributes, all
> leave it to the browser to resize the image and this leads to
> different resizing quality between different browser engines and they
> are usually not good. That's why it is suggested to shrink them on an
> image editor like GIMP or Photoshop.
>

Yes maybe it's better to not use em for widths but using exact pixels and resizing the image to the right scale.

> By the way, I also realised that round corners are not shown in Opera
> browser.
>

They only work in mozilla. It needs some time for creating such corners, though there are online services that automate this.
Would you want to do this task? :)

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ZuLuuuuuu

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Aug 23, 2008, 5:37:00 PM8/23/08
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>
> They only work in mozilla. It needs some time for creating such corners, though there are online services that automate this.
> Would you want to do this task? :)
>

I would if I weren't on another city and have my computer with me :) I
will be back hopefully in a month or so :(

Luca Bruno

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Aug 24, 2008, 6:10:57 AM8/24/08
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
ZuLuuuuuu <canol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would if I weren't on another city and have my computer with me :) I
> will be back hopefully in a month or so :(

Ahah ok :) Keep going with reports ;)

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