Re: Package List on Web Site

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 03:42:08PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > In particular, I have noticed that 
http://gnu.org/s/guix/package-list.html is now
     > over 1.5 MB in size and is startign to take an unacceptably long time to 
load (at
     > least for me).
     
     I think it???s rendering that takes time, not transfer per se (unless you
     have a very slow connection.)

You may well be right.  But I think that 1.5MB is *way*  too large for a single 
web page.
I'm relatively well connected but there are people in the world who still use 
56kps internet
connections.

     I would like it to use David???s guix-web JS code to add the search box
     and multiple-page split.  I suspect this would address the rendering
     time and usability issues.  But of course, that would need help from
     someone knowledgeable...  :-)

Artanis is another possible tool that might help, but I don't know much about 
it either.
     
     It would be ideal if this were done in a ???progressive enhancement???
     fashion, such that it can still be viewed in emacs-w3m.


It certainly should be viewable with w3m, and with links, yes.

J'

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