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mattwestcott

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About mattwestcott

Developer at http://torchbox.com working mainly in Django and JS

Habitual tinkerer with Javascript, ZX Spectrums, ZX Spectrums in Javascript (http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/), music, and the demoscene.

Blog: http://matt.west.co.tt/ - Twitter: @westdotcodottt

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    Comment #9445062

    That's probably down to the 128K Spectrums having a slightly faster clock speed than the original 16/48K model (3.5469MHz versus 3.5 exactly). I knew this would cause the timings t…

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    Comment #9406953

    > I see in no way how a BSD License is free. The FSF are quite happy to describe it as a free software licence https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD - not sure…

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    Comment #7660989

    It's not quite possible yet, but that's a frequently requested feature, and we're most of the way there. The wysiwyg component we're using, http://hallojs.org/ , supports defining …

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    Comment #7659171

    xaritas has hit the nail on the head with the key differences... As I see it, Django CMS's philosophy is to pass on as much flexibility as possible to the editor in terms of page l…

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    Comment #7659043

    On the 'framework on top of the framework' point - one thing we've aimed to do with Wagtail is to preserve Django's approach to models, templates and so on, rather than falling int…

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    Comment #7658891

    There's an 'unofficial' online demo (with some limitations - image / file uploads aren't supported) courtesy of Wagtail contributor Serafeim Papastefanos here: http://gentle-refuge…

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    Comment #7232543

    Yes, multiple sites are supported - there's a single tree for all pages in the system, and any number of sites can be 'rooted' at different points in the tree. (Currently this is c…

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    Comment #7231766

    There are some https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/blob/master/wagtail/wagt... - but not enough, we know. We're on it!

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    Comment #7231612

    oops, hazards of working off a live Git repo there :-) Fixed now - please run a git pull / pip install -r requirements/dev.txt and try again!

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    Comment #7231553

    Agreed, proper test coverage is absolutely something we want to achieve. We're working on it as we speak... https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/blob/master/wagtail/wagt... - Matt (…

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    Comment #2115546

    I had it as one tall column originally, but it turns out that one particular browser (Firefox, I think it was) refuses to render 44200px-high images.

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    Comment #2115329

    "(or use a css sprite)" You mean like this one... http://smyfaceimages.s3.amazonaws.com/moods_orange.png ? (yes, it's a bit of a mammoth image, but that's animation for you...)