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Redefining the Impossible

More modifications to website generation.


More modifications to website generation. The Archive page is now a table with entries arranged by month + year. Only took an hour or so to do this. Python is a very productive language, Cheetah works nicely and HTML-Kit does not get in the way.

HTML-Kit annoyances:

  • Tabbing has a mind of it's own.

  • HTML-Tidy always moans about tables not having summarys (even tables used for layout) and document appearing to be HTML 4.01 Transitional.

  • The beautifier breaks the Cheetah markup

  • Some Cheetah markup is long enough to stop preview being laid out properly because the sidebar is too wide. I have to shorten variable names.

  • Have to save .css file and switch to html file to preview

There may be workarounds for these, I can live with them. Overall I am happy with the tool set.


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