RE: Additional Commands

["James S. Huggins (dot com)" <JHuggins@JamesSHuggins.com>]

Upon reflection, this is fine.
It seems to serve everyone.
Thanks, Gunnar.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com
[mailto:owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com]On Behalf Of Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 6:06 PM
To: ringlinklist@gunnar.cc
Subject: Re: [ringlinklist] Additional Commands
Dave,
> 
> The hardest part of moving a ring to a different ring system is
> getting all the sites to change their HTML fragments.  I'd like to
> only have to do this once.
That's a point, no doubt. :) And to avoid it, you should carefully
consider _before_ the move how you want the design of your ring to be
afterwards.
As I wrote in my previous message, I have decided to skip the "next 5"
option in my own ring. And I believe that people gradually will agree
with me that if you make use of the "list" option, considering the
design of the list page, the "next 5" and "prev 5" options are
redundant.
So my advise is: Please study carefully how the Ringlink list page works
before you decide how to do. Maybe you conclude, like me, that the best
thing to do is to skip the "next 5" and "prev 5" options and change the
image / code.
> It would be very helpful if the names for the planned additional
> commands (Next5, etc) could be specified soon, so we could give
> ring members an HTML fragment that won't have to be updated again
> later.
That's true for those of you who really want to keep the "next 5" and
"prev 5" options.
So this is my decision in this respect:
I'll add two more files:
        next5.pl
        prev5.pl
Until they have been included in the distribution, you could create them
temporarily as exact copies of the list.pl file.
/ Gunnar