---- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Ellermann" <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@xxxxxxxxx> To: "t.petch" <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; <joelja@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 12:32 AM > 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). > Frank Yeeeee sss ..... If that is what I wanted; but I don't:-) I want an I-D and I know fairly accurately what it is called although my reference might be to an out-of-date version, or perhaps to a version that is yet to be adopted by a WG with a consequent name change. The brilliance of watersprings was I could go click, click, click and be there, with a list of close relatives, all on one page, NOTHING TO TYPE. The curse of WIMPS is having to move between mouse and keyboard. All keyboard is a pain, I can never remember when to use Ctl-Alt-back arrow etc. All mouse is a dream, and watersprings gave me that. With the current flavour of the IETF web site, I usually go via charters - WG - I-D list and then find 103 I-Ds in an order I cannot divine, give up and accept that I will have to type in d r a f t - i e t f - w g etc etc. Another waste of my time along with gif download, xml processing etc oh, did I mention all the javascripts that try to out think me and get in the way? mutter mutter I loved watersprings. Tom Petch (on a wet Saturday morning) > 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. Is your 46 KB observation about the > tools.ietf.org page with the search form? 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