Re: off topic - dna snipets

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12918
interpreted = N
texte = At 11:42 AM 8/7/97, Gary Richter wrote: >>StarNine is very happy to be the official site for WebDNA samples, no >>matter how small the snippets are. Please submit any WebDNA (of any size) >>as per the instructions on the page >>http://www.smithmicro.com/development/extendingwebcatalog.html >> >>While I'm not going to discourage anyone putting up their own site, I do >>think it's nice to have it all in one place, and publicly available. >> >>We would also like your feedback as to how the snippets pages should be >>organized -- up to and including some kind of full automation and >>searching (and remote submission) abilities. I'd like to keep it as >>simple (and as useful to first-timers) as possible. > >Let me throw forward a couple of ideas that come to mind. > > > >Use of the \ function and tables >Maybe not webDNA but general alignment of images and text and tricks used >for tables with in a table. >Maybe formatting of multiple searches and how people use and format in tables. > >examples of how people have solved date math problems beyond what the >online docs show. Into the future dates as well as looking backwards in >time. > >Some of the subtotal samples >sub categories and how it relates to pricing and shopping samples > >Just trying to think of what a lot of common questions are. And maybe when >we see a unique idea from now on, everybody or somebody says way cool >solution you should to post that snip to the page mentioned above. I have >saved in a special mail box, what I consider questions and solutions given >to various problems that I don't think I need today but think I will use in >the future. I could go back over this and pull out samples I have and post >those. as a starter. > >Having not looked at the page mentioned above in awhile. What I might >suggest is a webdna page where we paste/type in the original question in a >text block. Paste/type in solution in another block. Maybe a few key word >search arguments. I would rather see it displayed on the screen vs >downloading these very small snips. > >My rounded off $.02 worth > >=============================================== >Gary Richter > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com >=============================================== Good suggestions, Gary. Maybe when I get back from MacWorld Boston we can start setting this up in ernest.--ed========================================================== Ed Lejarza Product Manager email: ed@smithmicro.com StarNine, a Quarterdeck Company http://www.smithmicro.com/ 2550 Ninth Street, Suite 112 Phone: 510-649-4949 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA Fax: 510-548-0393 WebCatalog & WebMerchant Your Ideal Commerce Solution for Bringing Electronic Storefronts to the Web Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: off topic - dna snipets (Ed Lejarza 1997)
  2. Re: off topic - dna snipets (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  3. Re: off topic - dna snipets (Kevin Furuta 1997)
  4. Re: off topic - dna snipets (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  5. Re: off topic - dna snipets (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Re: off topic - dna snipets (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  7. off topic - dna snipets (Kevin Furuta 1997)
At 11:42 AM 8/7/97, Gary Richter wrote: >>StarNine is very happy to be the official site for WebDNA samples, no >>matter how small the snippets are. Please submit any WebDNA (of any size) >>as per the instructions on the page >>http://www.smithmicro.com/development/extendingwebcatalog.html >> >>While I'm not going to discourage anyone putting up their own site, I do >>think it's nice to have it all in one place, and publicly available. >> >>We would also like your feedback as to how the snippets pages should be >>organized -- up to and including some kind of full automation and >>searching (and remote submission) abilities. I'd like to keep it as >>simple (and as useful to first-timers) as possible. > >Let me throw forward a couple of ideas that come to mind. > > > >Use of the \ function and tables >Maybe not webDNA but general alignment of images and text and tricks used >for tables with in a table. >Maybe formatting of multiple searches and how people use and format in tables. > >examples of how people have solved date math problems beyond what the >online docs show. Into the future dates as well as looking backwards in >time. > >Some of the subtotal samples >sub categories and how it relates to pricing and shopping samples > >Just trying to think of what a lot of common questions are. And maybe when >we see a unique idea from now on, everybody or somebody says way cool >solution you should to post that snip to the page mentioned above. I have >saved in a special mail box, what I consider questions and solutions given >to various problems that I don't think I need today but think I will use in >the future. I could go back over this and pull out samples I have and post >those. as a starter. > >Having not looked at the page mentioned above in awhile. What I might >suggest is a webdna page where we paste/type in the original question in a >text block. Paste/type in solution in another block. Maybe a few key word >search arguments. I would rather see it displayed on the screen vs >downloading these very small snips. > >My rounded off $.02 worth > >=============================================== >Gary Richter > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com >=============================================== Good suggestions, Gary. Maybe when I get back from MacWorld Boston we can start setting this up in ernest.--ed========================================================== Ed Lejarza Product Manager email: ed@smithmicro.com StarNine, a Quarterdeck Company http://www.smithmicro.com/ 2550 Ninth Street, Suite 112 Phone: 510-649-4949 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA Fax: 510-548-0393 WebCatalog & WebMerchant Your Ideal Commerce Solution for Bringing Electronic Storefronts to the Web Ed Lejarza

DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW!

Top Articles:

Talk List

The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine...

Related Readings:

[WebDNA] Error 500 with SUMM=T (2017) Using Plug-In while running 1.6.1 (1997) Sorting Numbers (1997) Looking up two prices in Formulas.db (1997) [ShowNext] (1997) Creating folders and deleting files (1997) Calculating multiple shipping... (1997) WCS Newbie question (1997) Re:2nd WebCatalog2 Feature Request (1996) searchable list archive (1997) Out of the woodwork (2007) Cookies and webcat (1997) BadSuffix with 2.1b3 cgi (1997) Calendar using WebCatalog? (1997) Emailer setup (1997) Bug Report, maybe (1997) Variable prices and Formulas.db (1997) PCS Frames (1997) [WebDNA] FYI: Internet slowly wakes up to PayPal's quiet fee hike (2009) [random] only for 1-100??? (1997)