On 10/18/07, David Artman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am sorry that I came off testy--again, I did not mean to seem so; I > was just finding it a bit... bothersome... that a process about 3 months > down a SLOW road of discussion and preparation was suddenly being > stopped and rewound (or so I thought). Further, you caught the brunt of > that peevishness because you happened to be the last to post--not fair > of me at all. Whew, I feel better now. Apology happily accepted. > Now, if it's possible to "nest templates" so that the con-specific > template instantiates the base template on-the-fly and populates the > placeholder text (and table cell colors and anything else we'd tweak on > a per-badge basis) each time the con-specific template is called, then > that would certainly be more structured and easier to modify later > (well, except for the specifically-sized icons). One need only change, > say, the dimensions of the base template and all specific templates > which call it would automatically also change, because they always > "re-generate" themselves by looking first at that base code. (Right?) That's exactly right. > If you know how to do that, Don, then please get on-board with the base > template design. That would, in fact, make it a LOT easier for > individual Rabbits to make their own badges for the cons (or warrens) > that they coordinate, because they wouldn't have to wade through all of > the base template code to find and modify placeholder text (without > accidentally breaking the code). Rather, they could just "compile" a > specific template with a string of variable definitions (similar to the > Bio box or the InfoBox on the Icehouse wiki). This is precisely the idea. I'll see if I can find the time to make an actual concrete offering on the wiki. Chattering on email comes a lot more easily for me than wading through the wiki, especially at work. > No need to be sorry; your idea has not been present before, and if you > (or Mark) can pull it off then it's superior. Of course... it's neither > here nor there WRT what that base template will start out as, size-wise > (even if it's easy to change, it has to BE something first, to be > changed, ya?). So the Poll rolls on, even as we are discovering smarter > ways to implement the final decisions from that Poll. Yes, the poll continues. I'm talking about specifics of /how/ to implement it in a more effecient and maintainable way, not the look and feel of /what/ to do. This is a tangential topic. > simple and making it very hard for group maintenance. If that turns out > not to be the case, then I very much want us to make such changes now, > rather than head off in an inferior direction. I sincerely will try to sandbox something up when I get a chance. -- - |) () /\/