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Re: Quanta and W3C
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 01/Dec/2003, @14:08

Lucky me! Heckled by my own team member. I can't pick on Chris too much because he's done a lot for Quanta... so this is said with kindness...

For the record Chris, as you're posting this publicly without emailing me first. I never rejected what you sent in. I just haven't had time to look at integrating it. I've been too busy. I should also note you volunteered your work without first discussing various criteria and concerns with me, thus creating a need for major changes to use your work. It completely breaks the modular layout I use with PHP. Had you discussed it with me then I'd have given you access to my CVS and discussed objectives. Then we would actually function as a team. Also, the original site was largely done by Alex who was very HTML 3.2 oriented and it was an absolute mess. I cleaned and processed the site and validated it but as the pages are assembled in PHP it seems some of his code has slipped back in. I have a lot of experience in PHP and web development so when I go to implement changes I like to make sure that they don't create problems for me if I want to maintain it.

I'm not trying to be obnoxious. They validated when I tested it, even if they don't now. I found several things in there that are just ugly too that were done before I decided I needed to exclude sloppy coders. It's on my do list but I honestly have so much to do I really need 2-3 of me for my business and another 2-3 of me for KDE/Quanta. So if it really bugs you send a patch.

Before the end of the year I plan to completely revise the site and add online resource search/download/submit directly from within Quanta. I had planned on asking Chris if he'd like to help with this. In the mean time I have had to make public appeals to get the money to pay Andras as recently as last month and now I need to get my business squared away with major revisions on my business site and a big ebay launch so I can stop bleeding money and begging for help and start enjoying discretionary income. I don't even have cable TV because I can't spare the money for it or the time to watch it. I'll get to it this month and that's going to have to be good enough.

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Re: Quanta and W3C
by Jilks on Tuesday 02/Dec/2003, @10:39

> Heckled by my own team member.

Oh, don't worry about that. I do everyone. :-) Sometimes I even email people randomly that use XHTML + CSS just to say, "Hey, nice to see more and more people using XHTML + CSS! Nice work!"

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