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Oha, this went fast...Since I was very busy today, I had no chance to appreciate what has been opening up here;-)

So let me just repeat my post here that I did in the user's department, before realizing that there is a new platform now;-)
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There is very good news. Yesterday, Chris offered me both WEB/HTML and
archive space for textures on shatters.net. Since I now have an
account there, I can really arrange things according to what I think
is best. What I have in mind, is a "living" texture archive with
continuously improving content, open at any time for download, of course.

I plan to write a respective WEB page displaying all important info by
means of mere clicking and also serving as a download interface.

In more detail, it will

1) provide concrete info on the texture contents of the archive,
2) allow to view a representative image for each texture by clicking,
3) inform via an update tag about new textures that arrived in the archive,
4) have a clickable help/README for each texture group with
caveats, installation info (e.g. solarsys.ssc changes) and
conversion hints to other formats.

Moreover, my (borrowed;-)) WEBspace will also serve as a galery for GIMPers and
Photoshoppers to exhibit their latest achievements for the benefit of
other interested people.

If the ongoing polling tag is continuing to raise for the "YES"
voters, there are many more applications for the WEB/HTML interface
that come to mind.

Please let me know about any further suggestions you might have.

Bye Fridger

One word: Pefect.

Thanks again, Axel

Axel wrote:One word: Pefect.

Thanks again, Axel

Of course, it will take its time, notably since for the next weeks I am "overflowing" with work.

Also, in order to ease the administration of the archive I plan to use dynamical HTML in terms of cgi-scripts. Cgi+perl is (probably) not working yet for my account.

Bye Fridger

Afaik DHTML is with java script and fancy moving layers ;-)

Maybe you also want to try out php, you dont need much time to work into it and you can do things faster with it than with CGI ;)

Thilo wrote:Afaik DHTML is with java script and fancy moving layers ;-)

Maybe you also want to try out php, you dont need much time to work into it and you can do things faster with it than with CGI ;)

Sure PHP is a good solution. Yet I can code cgi-perl stuff very fast and reliably. Since my time for experiments in that direction has dramatically shrunk for the rest of the month at least, I think it is more important to arrive at a workable interface reasonably fast.

I want to automatize the bookkeeping of what is in the archive or what has newly arrived etc, as much as possible. Hence the HTML code must be adapted to these changes, which is a routine job for cgi. But I am also considering different possibilities. We shall see...

Bye Fridger

Yes, it was merely meant as a suggestion,
because you can write all the PHP code directly into your HTML files and the webserver transparently interprets these commands and creates a dynamically created webpage.

There is also a possibility to access a mysql database, or using ODBC to access other kinds of databases ;-)

Jeez keep it simple Fridger...Perl, PHP bah what do you want a forum?

I would go with simple HTML and maybe a bit of flare with javascript for your menu buttons...Put more work into the graphics ...

Afaik DHTML is with java script and fancy moving layers

And Thilo, whats this on moving layers? Are layers possible with web development? I've been wanting a scrolling window without frames...Is this possible with the layers you mention? DHTML? Or is this all graphics related only...

Yes, it is possible. but not all browser support it or have it enabled. So better dont make your page dependant only on Dynamic HTML ... it's actually writtin in JavaScript and has its own classes to manipulate .. and ways to define layers. (<div>).

I have worked a long time ago with the netscape DOM, right now im rather focusing on real C coding ;-)