[Sugar-devel] Local static page, final call for edits (Re: [RELEASE] Browse-106)

[Gary C Martin]

On 2 Apr 2009, at 17:16, Eben Eliason wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> On 2 Apr 2009, at 10:50, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Sorry to rush on this, but barring objections, I get the feeling
>>>> this is
>>>> getting close to happening in the next 24hrs...
>>>>
>>>>  http://dev.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/645/simple_static_page_v3.png
>>>
>>> Objection! :-) Please re-add the link to 'Local Schoolserver'.
>>
>> OK :-)
>>
>> Silly question, so I've added a link to http://schoolserver/ which
>> will be a broken link unless you are in a school environment with a
>> school server set to that name. Could distros (like SoaS, or XO
>> targeted builds), change the resolution order through /etc/host.conf
>> (maybe also /etc/nsswitch.conf) so that the check for schoolserver go
>> first to a dns server? If that fails to resolve, a local host file
>> entry could then try to go to the schools moodle server at http://schools.sugarlabs.org/
>
> We should really start referring to this as the "collaboration
> server", especially if we're going to include it as a link available
> in all distributions/environments. Ideally, we'd fall back to some
> page which describes the benefits of having a collaboration server and
> point to links for setting one up, if there isn't one available. I
> have no idea how to do that.

I went for "school", didn't really want the top right links turning  
into war and peace like some of our other pages have (wiki is  
especially bad, you need a wide screen to view them all!) ;-)

So... Eben/Martin is it to be "school" or "collaboration"?

And yes, colours do roll through the 12 sets (though that does eat  
100Kb on png logos), "home" does link to www.sugarlabs.org, and the  
css rollover inverted style matches Christian's design.

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Regards,
--Gary

> - Eben
>
>> Hmmm, I guess that's going to mess with browser cookies, but just
>> thought I'd raise the question.
>>
>> I might look at some other old html tricks (but not for this release)
>> that could avoid the broken link. Some dhtml tricks might work hiding
>> the potential error page in a hidden frame and auto switching to the
>> public server URL if the local URL fails.
>>
>>> BTW, did you mean to CC the list? We've dropped to a private  
>>> thread...
>>
>> Ooops, back on list.
>>
>> --G
>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> m
>>> --
>>> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>>> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
>>> - ask interesting questions
>>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>>
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