New www.perl.org site

Sue Spence sue at pennine.com
Sat Nov 14 05:59:46 GMT 2009


2009/11/13 Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Mark Fowler <mark at twoshortplanks.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Leo Lapworth <leo at cuckoo.org> wrote:
> >> 2009/11/13 Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>
> >>> Not to be contrarian, but is there any particular reason why random
> >>> bits of text in the main banner need to be Flash assets rather than an
> >>> open format like PNG or -- gosh -- text+CSS?
> >
> >> We wanted to
> >>
> >> 1) be able to easily change the message on the home page (it rotates
> between
> >> two at the moment, but we can add more later and use for other sites,
> e.g.
> >> dbi.perl.org)
> >> 2) use a non-web font
> >
> >
> > Goodness me, whatever next?  I should keep quiet about this if I was
> > you, because if people hear that you can actually get things done
> > rather than getting entrenched in the prevailing mindset that's
> > holding back improvements, a whole bunch of work will be coming your
> > way.
>
> Ha. Ha.
>
> I asked what the reason was. Now I know.
>
> I wasn't aware of iSFR. Now I am.
>

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