[mapserver-dev] Proposing some homepage changes...

[Howard Butler]

On May 3, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Howard Butler wrote:
>> On May 3, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>> Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>>>> Hi all: I'd like to propose some changes to the mapserver.org
>>>> homepage. Wondering how feasible they'll be via Sphinx: -
>>>> Breadcrumb. Really should start at "Home" and then go from there,
>>>> e.g.: Home >> Documentation >> MapScript  or Home >> FAQ Home >>
>>>> Develelopment >> RFCs - TOC on the homepage shouldn't be
>>>> announcements but rather something like: Community Mailing Lists IRC Wiki Development    Documentation Introduction FAQ Mapfiles MapScript Downloads Issue Tracker - Announcements could continue
>>>> below the fold on the main part of the homepage It's not user
>>>> friendly as is. The shorter, more meaningful TOC would also help
>>>> to pull the OSGEO and FOSS4G icons up the page. Thoughts?
>>> +1
>>> I think those would be GREAT changes, I hope we can get these done.
>>> I would like to add one more MAJOR usability change and that is CSS
>>> for printing. In FF do a Print Preview and you will see what I
>>> mean. The left hand Nav stuff is turned off as it should be, but
>>> the content is not repositioned to the left margin for printing.
>>> This should just be some CSS changes.
>> The PDF is not sufficient for printing?  Otherwise, do you have a
>> patch for the css changes?
> 
> Maybe, but how do I get that?

There's a link to "single PDF document" with an acrobat icon at the top of http://mapserver.org/documentation.html


> For example on this page:
> http://mapserver.org/ogc/filter_encoding.html


Provide a patch on a ticket that does what you want and Jeff or I can take care of it.


> 
> Just twiddling with the CSS in firebug, you might try adding this to basic.css at the bottom in the @media print {...} section:
> 
> /* -- printout stylesheet --------------------------------------------------- */
> 
> @media print {
>    div.document,
>    div.documentwrapper,
>    div.bodywrapper {
>        margin: 0;
>        width: 100%;
>    }
>    div.body {                 // add this block and see if it helps
>        position: absolute;
>        left: 0px;
>        width: 100%;
>    }
> 
>    div.sphinxsidebar,
>    div.related,
>    div.footer,
>    #top-link {
>        display: none;
>    }
> }
> 
> -Steve W