[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm-www/pubs/index.html pubs.js

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote:

>>>> Changes in directory llvm-www/pubs:
>>>>
>>>> index.html updated: 1.89 -> 1.90
>>>> pubs.js updated: 1.2 -> 1.3
>>>> ---
>>>> Log message:
>>>>
>>>> Converted all papers from hand-coded HTML to BibTeX-like  
>>>> Javascript.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't really agree with this change. This will rule-out non-js  
>>> aware
>>> browsers plus some search engines' crawlers.
>>> If such abstraction is desired, I think it could be done at server-
>>> side with
>>> PHP (although I'm slightly biased :)
>>
>> Hi Nuno,
>>
>> Maintaining the papers list is a major pain (for me, since I am the
>> only person who seems to add papers).  All the individual papers'
>> pages are still plain HTML.
>>
>> Besides that, I wouldn't be surprised if major search engines had  
>> some
>> way to handle this sort of JS.
>
> It's true that many search engines support JS, still I know many  
> guys that disable JS on their browsers..
> Anyway, I send in attach a simple PHP script that parses the current  
> pubs.js file format and generates the html automatically. The output  
> is just an example, and needs some tweaking.

Hi Nuno,

I'd really rather not do this.  This sort of thing makes it very  
difficult to hack on the web page remotely (not connected to the  
server) and raises maintenance issues (if we ever upgrade PHP or move  
servers, it adds another thing to worry about).  I think PHP is a  
great solution for things like the nightly tester (which has to  
integrate with a database) but for something this simple, I think JS  
is a great answer.

-Chris