Auto removing 'new' icon

Anniepoo / swiplsitedesign

design documents for the SWI-Prolog website redesign

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Auto removing 'new' icon #37

Open Anniepoo opened 10 years ago

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

There are lots of instances of the little 'new' splash.

It's an ok thing, but

it doesn't fit visually. It creates new color and shape palette for no reason.
it tends to hang around forever. Are windows daily builds still 'new'?
it's a "desperation device" - an ad hoc attempt to attract attention. This is generally a bad idea.

Suggested solution:

Add to the markdown language a way to conditionally include content based on a date. This seems a simple, powerful way to add 'news' like features.
Redesign the 'new' icon

Jan, to you for commentary, then pass back to me to implement

JanWielemaker commented 10 years ago

Replacing the new image with something that fits the design better is a clear step ahead.

The rest is rather involved. I think that the most sensible way is the add ![Alt text](/icons/news.png) (following GitHub's markdown conventions). Now, Alt text could be 2014/01/25 and you could handle the stuff either server site or in JavaScript. That means changing doc_wiki.pl of pldoc, extend the definition of the pldoc output format and deal with the extensions in the various backends.

I'd put it low on the priority list. You've got edit rights for the wiki pages, just delete the ones that are not relevant any longer.

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

agreed, low priority. We certainly can do by hand for a while.

dislike the alt text solution, seems better to have a way to mark a block 'only relevant until this time' so we're not restricted to just putting the icon. whats needed is a general if in/not in this block of time include this material. So, for example, we could add notes about rel 7 on relevant pages that don't hang around forever.

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

reassigned to Anniepoo to make new icon

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

ok, here's a classic case where it'd be nice to have 'stale date' anywhere in the wiki.
When we start the new download page, everybody with an auto downloader is going to wonder if they're now fragile. We could put a note in the wizard saying they're not, but that note needs to go away after a while. Whats the chances I'll remember to remove that? (Further, it's not in a piece of publicly editable wiki, it's a fragment picked up by download wizard).