On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 02:23:28PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > That would be an improvement on the current situation, but it would > > > also mean hooking up a JavaScript minifier to our build system. I'm > > > not quite sure how those things work, but I think the ones that are > > > widely used depend on node.js and who knows how many nano-libraries > > > pulled from NPM to do their thing? > > > > Fedora has uglify-js RPM present in its repos which is trivial > > to install & use > > > > $ uglify-js foo.js > foo.min.js > > > > If a distro lacks this package, simply don't minimize it. > > Alright, I'll admit that's not as bad as I feared :) > > > > Counter-proposal: can we just get rid of the RSS widget from the > > > homepage? That's literally the only reason we included all this > > > JavaScript in the first place. It's cute, but possibly not worth > > > the effort if you take into account having to spend time keeping up > > > with updates to jQuery and friends, which if history is any > > > indication we'd do a pretty awful job at anyway. > > > > > > As a data point, the QEMU website provides a link to Planet Virt > > > Tools in its footer. We could do the same: we even already have a > > > bunch of links there. > > > > Hiding a link in the footer is really poor in comparison. The point > > of having the feed content on the website is that it gives direct > > visibility to visitors of the site. Far fewer will notice & follow > > a link in the footer. We need to be improving visibility of relevant > > content, not making it worse. > > > > Updating jQuery is not a burden / timesink. It is something we > > haven't considered a priority to bother with as it has just worked > > fine. So there's no compelling reason to remove it when it is > > serving an important use case. > > I'm okay with having links to Planet Virt Tools very visible, but I > disagree that the only way to achieve that is through a JavaScript > powered blog roll. > > For example, we could keep the third column of the homepage and > rename it to "Community", then move all the "Community" links from > the footer to that column. Pretty visible still, and no JavaScript, > > Would you consider that acceptable? Well its better than everything in the footer, but I still believe it is significantly worse than what we have already. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
