#musicbrainz

so yes and no

Ah, yes, SHOULD NOT. My bad.

The red confused me into thinking it was "MUST NOT".

Aankhen``: I don't have a link right not, but it's simple XMLHttpRequest

*now

what is the difference bwtwene xhtml and html and why is it inmportant?

catgroove: yes and no. agian. ibm would be your primary resource here. covers the US & int'l standards, and all the work has been released into open source

they load the MB page from javascript, parse it and then use the data

If it's a simple XMLHttpRequest, then it should be easier still to have a seperate XML-only representation of the data they want.

I thought about something..

Aankhen``: but the XML representations isn't available

catgroove: XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as XML. It basically offers zero benefit at this point apart from being XML.

the XHTML page is

it would be neat if one could have different 'modes' to mb

luks may i sen you links by e-mail?

luks: Mmm hmm. Fair enough.

like, if I am on an 'AR adding spree' I want maybe other links than if I'm checking which artists I'm subscribed too

yllona: sure, lalinsky [at gmail.com]

Yikes, I need to go shower.

so we could have a mode where 'add thisartist to my subscribed list' was next to *all* artist links (like in releaselists of Va and search results)

Doing LoadModule in apache is using DSO - right? And mod_perl/mason doesn't like that?

luks: will do, in the next coupe of days.. i' in the midst of a house move

ok

but theregualr 'mode' didn'thave them

might reserve clutter

what do you think?

and you could have 'n00b' mode and 'advanced mode' and 'I hate clutter andz fancy shitznas gimme oldtime mb' mode..

etc

andthis could be turned of and no on prefs

Hmmm, INSTALL seems to suggest configuring apache with --active-module, but --help doesn't even show "--activate-module"?

like.. I wanted to subscribe now to all artists on http://musicbrainz.org/release/a1b81ecd-8b9f-4a...

And I don't have a src/modules/perl/libperl.a in my apache src dir

oh and one more thought. since MB is a US non-profit organization, then MB needs to comply to section 508 -- http://section508.gov/

but to do that I haveto got to all those pages, (and since i wanted to see if I was subscribed already and if the artist had any subscribers) I click 'details, then 'subscribe' that's a lot of stuff

which is essentially WCAG (w3c accessibility guidelines)... sorry folks -- we have to go there for legal reasons

and catgroove needs to hush up ;)

wow. 3 hours of work and PicardQT let me tag 7500 files with a snap. The remaining 1500 are going to be more work.

WCAG are great fun, especially as the validator is completely useless. :/

yllona: don't sweat it, I know what you mean, my mother is in a wheelchair, remember? ;) I just meant the practical way, that even thought it in theory 'should' be better, it isn't possible to use musicbrainz for EDITING, practically, without basic screen and keyboard usability

and.. what?

FauxFaux: me too, but the US gov't has a separate validator

FauxFaux: and it works

Aha, I do now that I've build mod_perl

I had an idea today about somethignthat might be usefull to mb, (just a vauge idea, mind) popped in my head.. i'm not alowed to say it?

and I still don't understand what is xml and why html is bad

catgroove: It's harder for computers to read. :p

FauxFaux: bobby is one of many. i'm not kidding we need to get our house in order regarding accessibility, esp since google is a "sponsor"

I want to hear your idea!

does ending a <br> tag with <br /> makethe page loadfaster?

FauxFaux: lol

well as a greasemonkey-er, i for one am excited that with xhtml i can actually get an XMLHttpRequest back in xml format

catgroove: Technically, yes.

ok then

it's basically a "geek" thing?

I am all underthat, totally understand

but people need to stop swaeting about it so much ;)

Yeah, it's basically a geek thing. I't "better" in a technical sense, and noboyd else will ever notice. :p

as long as the site*works* i'm happy

FauxFaux: that's what I thought

:)

yllona: are you mad?

read my note to you

nope. just frustrated. which is an entirely different matter :)

yllona: re: google is a "sponsor" - check googles homepage :)

luks: MB has received funds from the google foundation, check with ruaok

yllona: I just mean that google's pages are the opposite of accessibility :)

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri... ?

luks: google has a separate infrastructure for US gov't stuff

and yeh, google's public stuff is bullshit from an accessibility standpoint

yahoo does a much better job

ruaok: we were talink accebility, and the requirement for section 508 compliance which MB is sorely lackng

in a nutshell, what is 508?

ruaok: http://section508.gov/

thats not the nutshell. :)

accesibility for the handicapped

sounds like a complete clusterfuck.

you could easily use the IBM libraries for accessibility, they've placed the libraries into open source

but a ncessary one.

ruaok: no it's not the clusterfuck it used to be... it's become quite easy these days. section 508 was mandated in 1997/98 since then it's quite easy (ie you don't need to roll your own solution)

XHTML is also more future proof than HTML, as browsers will (ever so) slowly be able to drop the (clunky) HTML parsing in favour of XML + XSL (or other form of styling), which could cover far more ground than HTML: MathML, MusicXML, DocBook, …

(A tad late, but was on the phone with SO.)

Freso: not sure about that...

most of the major technology vendors have been section 508 compliant from the get-go. IBM, Sun, Apple, etc

HTML 5 development seems to be more active than XHTML 2

adobe too.

Noes, not more sgml.

yllona: what specific do we not comply with?

ruaok: i don't type fast enough, may i call you

can we talk tomorrow?

I wanna catch up on a ton of email that has piled up.

yeah, that works. sen me an e-mail with your availibility

anytime afternoon tomorrow is fine

or just cal me when you get the chance

tomorrow pm? that's good for me

k

luks: HTML 5 would need more development than XHTML 2, I'd think. IMHO/AFAIK, XHTML is 'just another' XML-module after XHTML 1.1, which would mean that a lot of stuff can be handled in other areas. I'd also think that whatever is to be done with HTML 5 is probably also 'ported' to XHTML 2.

FauxFaux: XML is SGML. :)

Freso: Don't make me go workout how to type the subset operator. ;p

So what should I be doing -- sticking with HTML 4.01 Strict, or going XHTML 1.1?

XHTML!¬

Freso: HTML5 features will never make it to XHTML2

it's completely different ideology

aCiD2: I'd say XHTML.

HTML5 is about rich web applications, XHTML is about documents

Ok

"DBI connect('dbname=template1;host=localhost;port=5431','postgres',...) failed: could not connect to server: Connection refused at /home/acid2/brainz/StructuredXHTML/admin/../cgi-bin/MusicBrainz.pm line 85" -- think that's an auth problem?

yllona: That's not really an issue, AFAIK. IIRC, XML is defined from SGML - meant to be a simplified form of SGML.

1989?

Yup

whoah.

:)

what's the issue with postgres?

It's too powerful! 8)

"FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres""

Authentication issues.. can never work em out :(

Freso yep, i agree. my point being that's there's been plenty of time to adapt, at least in the US

I'm actually planning on installing PostGIS and play around with that.

yllona: Not sure I follow. :)

aCiD2: did you install from binaries?

you'll need to hack on pg_hba.conf;

ruaok: I just left what was already on my server when I bought it

My working postgres setup has "local all all trust" in pg_hba.conf, but my current server has the method "ident sameuser"

eeks.

Heh

you and recompile 8.1 from source.

:O

Cool, I'll do that

s/you/go/

Why?-)

its really easy

iirc I had to do that on my ubuntu desktop too

the perms work great out of the box.