[Web Comm] Re: VisCom requests support

[Daniel Brookshier]

iFrame to an offsite page will throw a security error in a lot of  
browsers (especially MS Exploder), so I would avoid it.

Daniel Brookshier | Community Manager | CollabNet, Inc.
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On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Daniel Brookshier wrote:
>> I got a bit of time to work on it this week. But let me give you  
>> the easy workaround:nonav.
>> If you add nonav after the main url, you get a page that is 100%  
>> configurable. Here is what geotools looks like:
>> https://geotools.osgeo.org/nonav/index.html
>> The only issue with this is that you should replicate enough of  
>> the links in the osgeo.org site to get users back to the main site  
>> and to the internal tools.
>> Not perfect, but one of the easiest hacks available on the  
>> CollabNet platform.
>> Daniel Brookshier | Community Manager | CollabNet, Inc.
>> 8000 Marina Blvd. Suite 600 | Brisbane, CA 94005 | USA
>> O 972.422.5261 | C 214.207.6614 | dbrookshier at collab.net
>
> Thanx for the tip, I tried it with
> https://mapbender.osgeo.org/nonav/index.html
> but for some reason the iframe does not load Mapbender correctly.  
> Its a mess anyway to combine a non-secure server with an iframe in  
> a secured https connection. Ideally we would run Mapbender directly  
> from the SVN trunk on the CN infrastructure. That would immediately  
> kill the smoke/compile/test issue and provide for an easily  
> accessible dev server. I'll progress on this one in the hopeful  
> expectation to solve some of these issues once tellascience goes  
> online.
>
> Meanwhile we'll play around integrating the Wiki using nonav, there  
> are plenty of backlinks to OSGeo already.
>
> Regards, Arnulf.
>
>> On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>>> Chris Holmes wrote:
>>>> Ok, I put up a few links.  Our developers wanted us to just  
>>>> redirect immediately to geotools.org.  As a compromise I  
>>>> redirect after 30 seconds, plenty of time to read the text I put  
>>>> up.
>>>> If there's a way to edit the side bar with whatever I want then  
>>>> I'm happy to get rid of the redirect, but I need like all the  
>>>> elements on http://geotools.org  But last I checked it involved  
>>>> some weird javascript madness.
>>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> side bar configurability has been on our wish list for some time  
>>> already. Whats the current state on this? "Weird madness" might  
>>> just be a little too much even for us...
>>>
>>> Arnulf.
>>>
>>>> Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>> would you mind getting your project pages at OSGeo in order.  
>>>>> Please. It is
>>>>> not a lot of work. Just connect your SVN, download index.html from
>>>>> trunk/www, copy whatever you have on your projects's real hompage
>>>>> (http://ms.gis.umn.edu/) and paste it to this index.html. Maybe  
>>>>> you would
>>>>> add seventeen links all pointing to your existing infrastructure.
>>>>> Finished. If you don't want to go into the trouble of setting  
>>>>> up your SVN
>>>>> etc, make me a contributor and I paste it there for you. Oh  
>>>>> well, why me,
>>>>> just delegate it, you are the Project Owners.
>>>>> https://mapserver.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList tell  
>>>>> that guy Elton
>>>>> to do it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine something like http://mapbender.osgeo.org is just  
>>>>> fine (maybe
>>>>> without the hassle of an online map but isn't that neat...  
>>>>> except you have
>>>>> MS IE...) Steve, did you notice that we are just three letters off
>>>>> srv/bnd. Funny that BND is the German Bundesnachrichtendienst,  
>>>>> something
>>>>> like the CIA I guess... oh, drifting off again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Same for
>>>>> https://geotools.osgeo.org/ (BND is watching you!)
>>>>> https://geotools.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList
>>>>> Oh, you don't even have any members. Too bad, gotta do it all  
>>>>> by yourself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently these pages look dead as a wet cat (and smell). No good
>>>>> visibility, no promotion, just embarrasment for two of the most  
>>>>> best
>>>>> important overworked and kind guys that we need so badly to  
>>>>> make OSGeo
>>>>> shine and sparkle. I wonder whether you read those annoying
>>>>> nerve at osgeo.org emails at all.
>>>>> =:-)
>>>>>
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