Re: PostgreSQL web site

[Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Also,
> >
> > I'd like to see PDA version of web site and archives. Current design is 
> > very inconvenient.
>
> Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for us, but a PDA 
> version is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.

As a first step, changing CSS optimized for PDA would be ok. Archives is
an our knowledgebase and sometimes I need to search/read them using my 
PDA (it's 640x480). But I don't insist :)

> Sincerely,
>
> Josuha D. Drake
>
>
> >     Oleg
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> > > > > Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There
> > > > > are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on
> > > > > bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG
> > > > documentation
> > > > > (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down,
> > > > > responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for
> > > > > instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate
> > > > should be
> > > > > used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth
> > > > > mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
> > > >
> > > > Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using
> > > > mod_deflate?
> > >
> > > Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
> > > the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
> > > check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
> > > images and that argument would go away..
> > >
> > > //Magnus
> > >
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> >     Regards,
> >         Oleg
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	Regards,
		Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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