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Archivist goes live

After a successful private beta, the new searchable css-discuss archive is ready for use by the general public. If you spot any bugs or have any suggestions for improving the archive please drop me a line.

The archive includes all messages sent to the css-discuss mailing list since the list started back in January, and should be of great interest to anyone with an interest in CSS. The archive software is written in PHP and uses mySQL for storage.

Posted 12th August 2002 at 5:14 pm

This is Archivist goes live by Simon Willison, posted on 12th August 2002.

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  1. Simon, this is outstanding. Great job. How often will the site be updated?

    Adrian - 12th August 2002 18:16 - #

  2. It's updated in real time - there's a PHP script subscribed to the list (using procmail) which adds new messages to the database as soon as it receives them.

    Simon - 12th August 2002 18:32 - #

  3. Ah, I should've guessed it was that cool. :) One thing I just noticed: Once you're deep into the site, there's no link back to the main page. You might consider putting a link in the middle of the top of each page, between "Previous Message" and "Next Message". Just a thought.

    Adrian - 12th August 2002 20:06 - #

  4. There is a link back to the main page, but it's hidden away in the bottom right hand corner. I keep looking for it at the top of the page and I wrote the durned thing so I should probably move it up a bit :) I'm planning a slight rejiggle of the layout at the moment.

    Simon - 12th August 2002 20:24 - #

  5. Now I see it! Sorry I didn't notice it the first time. The lack of underlining threw me off...

    Adrian - 12th August 2002 21:17 - #

  6. Very nice. I'm mightily impressed. I have one further question/suggestion. the default homepage displays the last 40 messages. is there a way to see the 40 before that? and the 40 before that? the only other alternative seems to be viewing the archive for the entire month.

    jonner - 12th August 2002 23:21 - #

  7. Wow! This is one of the smoothest archives I've seen. I especially like the Google-licious hilighting of searched-for words. One suggestion: could you insert an extra line break before quoted material? The PRE tag is ignoring the blank lines just before quoted text (in IE5.1/Mac) so that the response runs into the next bit of quoted text. Should be easy using regexp's, look for two newlines followed by a quote marker.

    Micah - 13th August 2002 03:11 - #

  8. Well done, this is excellent. Thanks. Now if only Webdesign-L would adopt it...

    francois - 13th August 2002 13:05 - #

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