[Clipart] [Bug 3508] BLOG: Add wordpress blog engine to the site like Inkscape.org

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:13 +0000, Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 
> > Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> TBH I'd like to use proper absolute paths on the website. All that
> >> $site_root stuff is extremely messy. I know it's done with relative
> >> paths so that people running from a subdirectory on their local machine
> >> (like http://localhost/clipart/) don't have a problem, but really, I
> >> don't think that's a good excuse. Absolute paths make life *so* much
> >> easier (after you've been bothered to set up VHosts), and I really
> >> wouldn't do it any other way on one of my own sites. Also, URIs like
> >> /contact.php are bad (what happens if you change technology? the file
> >> name changes --> 404s), it should be done as just "/contact/" (Which can
> >> be implemented with MultiViews easily -- not mod_rewrite). Furthermore,
> >> cgi-bin directories are really, really, really (REALLY) evil (see above
> >> about technologies).

Okay, well, if you want to spend the time to change the site to absolute
paths, then go ahead, but there is not much reason to change at this
point. Seems like a better use of time to work on DMS and other things
on the roadmap, and slowly refactor to absolute paths.

> > for absolute enjoyment:
> > 1. http://openclipart.org
> > 2. click on "Browse"
> > 3. enter in any category (keyword) you want (without this step you
> > will get "only" a 404 error)
> > 4. press "See More" on the right sidebar

Yes, this seems more urgent to me than redoing the site with absolute
paths.

> Which is exactly the point... right? If it was "/submissions.php",
> instead of "submissions.php" there would be no problem. (Or have a
> mis-understood something?)

This is true. If either of you want to redo the site with absolute
paths, go ahead and do it. You have the keys to the car, so open the
hood and tune it up... ;)

Jon

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