Re: "Linux Knowledge Base"

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

"Aaron D. Turner" wrote:

> > That would be nice.  I do have O'Reilly's panther book - Advanced Perl
> > Programming.
> 
> Gawd that's a deep book.  I'm still working on it myself.  It doesn't
> cover many CGI concepts though.  CGI Programming also by O'Reilly is a

Well, CGI has nothing to do with advanced programming, the topic of the
book.  CGI concepts are actually pretty basic.  I also have a book
"Instant Web Scripts with CGI/Perl" or something like that.  It gets
more in depth with CGI and may be of some use.

> mod_perl and CGI.pm are for two different things.  mod_perl speeds up
> execution of CGI's on the server by avoiding a fork/recompile each time.
> CGI.pm is a developer tool to make writing CGI's and forms easier in Perl.
> We will use both.

Ahh...  I thought mod_perl already had something like CGI.pm built in.

> With that strict of a limit, there won't be any rendered buttons- they'll
> have to be fonts.  Not complaining, just an observation.  One thing to

Frankly, I think that's the best way to do it.  Fonts can look nice - we
can alter the size and color.  What do rendered buttons gain us besides
a little looks and longer loading time?

We might be able to do some kind of image map and compress it down to
25K or so.  Then a 20K heading and 5K of misc little images, and we'd be
OK.