Programming Contest 7 - Questions

[stuart]

Originally posted by gurglet@Apr 1 2004, 02:34 PM
Is tar.gz file format okay, or should it just be zip?

tar.gz is prefered, but zip would also be fine!!

[gurglet]

Originally posted by stuart@Apr 1 2004, 02:55 PM
tar.gz is prefered, but zip would also be fine!!

well, I mailed in a zip file just to be sure, but a tar.gz file is available for download on the example pages

[cryonax]

Originally posted by stuart@Mar 12 2004, 03:44 PM
So if you have a script that will do lots of cool things on IE... that is fine but the main functionality should also run on non-javascript browsers.... even if the jazzy client-side scripts fail.

Uhm, some things cannot be done in all browsers... Take, for example, all those online HTML editors floating around. That's IE 4.0+ or Mozilla 1.3+, if I'm not mistaken. And NO way of doing a similar thing without all that JS, DOM, blah, blah. Other than saying "sorry, your browser is not supported and we can't help it".

So, despite the fact that client-side scripting is not judged, if I have a choice between an ugly text area and full-featured editor that can copy, paste, undo, sing and cook, I would rather do the second and not care about compatibility.

What do you say?

Can we use xul+php to build editor, so it's mozilla-only ?

[stuart]

To the 2 above questions... yes and yes. Build it the way you want and if it does not work in all browsers the so be it. But it would help if the basic featured still worked.

Stuart

[jlawrence]

When will the winners for the contest be announced? (Waiting in eager anticipation here ;] )

[cryonax]

Bump! I am getting anxious too...

[stuart]

Hi,

Very sorry for the delay. Im working on it and shall post the results either today or early next week

Good Luck

[jlawrence]

It was judged ;] Time for the new one now... =]

When was it judged though? I was expecting an email or something of that sort for notification... =]