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"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
news:web.4785c8c7767dec36f6ab856c0@news.povray.org...
>I would like to suggest that the entry for an object should display a
>version
> history and allow visistors to view old versions of objects.
>
> Take, for instance, Wikipedia. Image pages on Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Camera_focal_length_distance.gif) have
> a
> version history where you can see the names of all contributers. You can
> view
> and revert to old versions of a file.
>
Hi,
The POV-Ray Object Collection already does this.
For example, your AxesAndGridMacro shows version 1.2 from today as the
default, but allows you to download version 1.11 from earlier today by
selecting it in the pulldown instead of version 1.2.
The history shows the date that the version was submitted and the nickname
of the contributor. You should be able to see the information change if you
select version 1.11 because the image that I added to the version 1.2 entry
this morning should vanish and be replaced by the 'NoImage' image.
When you select a different version the screen only reloads the image and
the description for that one item, and doesn't refresh the whole page. So if
the image and text against two versions of the object are identical, then it
might be difficult to spot that the information really has updated on the
screen.
The intention is to avoid too much duplication, so you could have uploaded
your SphereGridMacro as a replacement for GridLines if you'd have wanted to.
Anyone in the future wishing to download the older version would still be
able to get to it.
Indeed, if you want to do that you still can. I could then suppress the
separate SphereGridMacro entry if that's what you'd like to do.
ps. Although images are not mandatory there's a very strong preference to
have both a thumbnail image and a full-sized image with the contribution,
making it quicker and easier for people looking for stuff to see if the
contribution is the sort of thing they're looking for. In the case of
SphereGridMacro it would be nice to show off the range of capabilities of
the macro in one image.
Preferably jpg or gif, but other browser compatible formats are acceptable.
The main image should have the same name as the contribution (e.g.
gridlines.jpg). The thumbnail should have the name of the contribution
followed by '_thumbnail' (e.g. gridlines_thumbnail.jpg). If there is no
thumbnail it'll use the main image, but that takes longer to download and
doesn't always scale nicely, so it's better to also do a 160x120 thumbnail.
Regards,
Chris B.
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