[gopher] Re: Views
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 01:00 PM, Ralph Furmaniak wrote:
> I included a list of features in a previous email, and I can write up
> some detailed info.
Ah, was it a mail to this list?
>> So you're saying that your buck branch handles UMN .Links/.cap files?
>
> I included the funtionality relatively recently (even has the same
> command-line options) based on the man pages, but I think the man page
> was not to clear on a few points. I have not tested this out yet.
Not only that, but it doesn't document all of the options even. The
best bet is the source code -- see gopherd/gopherd.c and
object/GSgopherobj.c for starters.
> Okay, on my server I have a directory pyramid.dir and in it I have:
> pyramid.tex
> pyramid.dvi
> pyramid.pdf
> Now when the server serves the parent directory, on seeing that the
> directory has a .dir extension it acts accordingly. For a gopher+
> request it will give an item `pyramid` with the views found in the
> directory. For
I like it! How do you define which view is the default, though? (In
Gopher+ parlance, the "preferred" view)
>> Indeed. Already thought of that but have no idea how to do it :-)
>
> Should be a bit of DHTML or javascript and layers or iframes. I have
> seen it before (I have a friend who does this sort of stuff) but others
> can probably implement the HTML better. It should not be much of a
> problem writing the server-side code.
Yeah, the server side is easy -- I just don't know Javascript.
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