Re: PostgreSQL web site

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
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83