On 10/7/11 15:32 , Frank Ellermann wrote: > On 7 October 2011 11:36, t.petch wrote: > >> No thousands of .gif to spend ages downloading, no Megabytes of XML >> that take half an hour to process, no https that locks up the >> workstation more often than not, no need for a user manual to >> explain how to do what; just a simple, self-evident interface, as >> simple as it could be but no simpler (a paragon of engineering >> design) taking me to exactly what I needed, almost every time (no >> irtf, but I learnt to live with that). > >> watersprings, you are sorely missed. > [...] > >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/DRAFTNAME works very well > > E.g. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database> > > IMO it is brilliant: It always lists all versions with relevant > links (including tracker and various diffs) in *simple* XHTML, no > thousands of GIFs, no https overhead, a minimal amount of CSS for > its minimalistic approach to show drafts as near to the TXT form > as possible (the colour-coded status gimmick is acceptable, e.g., > it caused no visible trouble with a HTML 3.2 browser). > > If that is still not yet minimalistic enough for you check out: > <URL:http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-lear-iana-timezone-database> > > That's plain text. You can omit -nn.txt in DRAFTNAME for version > nn to get the latest plain text version. Including IRTF drafts. > > Sadly the IETF announce list still does not offer links for this > repo. If somebody here has a simple "favlet" or "bookmarklet" > (= Javascript URL) to transform the announce list datatracker > locations into tools.ietf.org locations please share it. > > @Joel: There is only one rel="icon" PNG in the rfcmarkup HTML > for an I-D, size about 1KB. right my obervation about 4KB was the sum total retrived (by in this case firefox) which I did not find painful. > Is your 46 KB observation about the > tools.ietf.org page with the search form? yes I note I have zero complaints about the performance envelope of a 46KB page icons and all. > If your browser can > handle OpenSearch description documents like most modern browsers > I could create an OSDD for you, with input DRAFTNAME as described > above and output = send corresponding HTTP GET to tools.ietf.org. > > -Frank > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf