[MKDoc-admin] Re: mkdoc

[Chris Croome]

Hi

I have copied this to the admin list in case others have better
suggestions than me, I hope that is OK.

On Fri 14-Feb-2003 at 04:31:47PM -0000, g.t.selwood at adm.leeds.ac.uk
wrote:
> 
> Thought it would be more useful to send this to both of you. I'm
> getting along with mkdoc but there's still a few teething problems:-
> 
> I can't add html objects to my pages in the editor view
> 
> Even simple stuff like
> 
> <ul>
>   <li>Bullet 1</li>
>   <li>Bullet 2</li>
> </ul>
> 
> results in nothing or a truncation appearing on the page.  The mkdoc
> demo server works fine when doing this sort of stuff so there may be a
> tweak needed in our installation. 

That is very strange. The only think I can think of is that perhaps
there is a problem with HTML Tidy? 

Can you test it on the command line? The location of Tidy and the
commandline that MKDoc uses can be found in the
mkdoc/conf/site/global.cfg file and you can add at the end of this
command line the location of a HTML file on the file system and it
should return the results to standard out.

> The Photo object doesn't work either but presume this doesn't matter
> as we've got image objects to add.

This might because of an Image::Magick problem -- it is one of the
hardest Perl modules to get installed and running properly, but Bruno
has dones it on Solaris so it can be done :-)

> I understand the discussion is in another version and may require
> further support in any case

Yes it's in the next version and we haven't released it yet. It required
a IMAP server for the archive of posts.

> I'd like to be able to put this sort of html into my pages
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disabilityservices/newsite/accessibility/accessibility.html

That shouldn't be a problem, the Javascript file can go in the
/.static/javascript directory.

Or you could install something to do this server side, for example:

  http://www.sfu.ca/~ajdelore/cssfile/

However I have stopped using this on new sites I do because when it has
been discussed on W3C accessibility lists the general view seems to be
that this kind of thing impresses web designers and people funding web
designers but isn't of that much use to people with disabilties --
people who need high contrast and large fonts have to set this up in
their browsers for 99% of web sites out there and if they have done this
they don't need the CSS switching thingy on sites that have it.

Chris

-- 
Chris Croome                               <chris at webarchitects.co.uk>
web design                             http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ 
web content management                               http://mkdoc.com/   
everything else                               http://chris.croome.net/