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Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by walterbell »

peckrob wrote: post #27
walterbell wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There may be some ideas in Netobjects Fusion, http://netobjects.com

Wow. That's a blast from the past. NetObjects Fusion had some interesting features and ideas. My first non-intern job was with a company that did e-Learning materials. Our products were basically self-contained websites, with video content and scripted subtitled text, distributed on CDs. This was 2002 or so, so it was super bleeding edge then. Our entire infrastructure relied on the extensive scriptability and plugab…

Cool story, didn't know about the automation and scriptability. I wonder how many customers are still using NetObjects Fusion today, e.g. how well it has kept up with changes in the browser landscape.

Edit: was a browser included on the CDs? Today, one could bundle a portable-apps version of Firefox, increasing the likelihood of the content remaining readable, without needing external plugins for video.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by jtwebman »

Hmm thank you for the story and the awesome work. Though I use DocPad right now Octopress / Jekyll is a great as well. And maybe we have room for another static site generator....The one I am working on :)

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Post by azurelogic »

listic wrote: post #25

Is there a popular static site generator for node.js? EDIT: Whoops, there's now even a directory listing static site generators in different languages! https://www.staticgen.com/

I looked at Hexo, Assemble, Wintersmith, Docpad, Metalsmith, and many others. I wanted flexibility to restructure as I saw fit and easily add structures other than just blogs. I tried docpad but it struck me as too "tell you how it's gonna be", even setting your front end template. Metalsmith (http://www.metalsmith.io/) was a great solution to that. It's a lot like using Gulp and Express' middleware plugins. I liked that I could completely customize the build pipeline to get exactly what I wanted. There's also a way to do your build pipeline with config files, if that's your cup of tea.

Re: Octopress 3.0 is coming

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Post by peckrob »

walterbell wrote: post #31
peckrob wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. That's a blast from the past. NetObjects Fusion had some interesting features and ideas. My first non-intern job was with a company that did e-Learning materials. Our products were basically self-contained websites, with video content and scripted subtitled text, distributed on CDs. This was 2002 or so, so it was super bleeding edge then. Our entire infrastructure relied on the extensive scriptability and plugab…

Cool story, didn't know about the automation and scriptability. I wonder how many customers are still using NetObjects Fusion today, e.g. how well it has kept up with changes in the browser landscape. Edit: was a browser included on the CDs? Today, one could bundle a portable-apps version of Firefox, increasing the likelihood of the content remaining readable, without needing external plugins for video.

It's been awhile so I don't remember the full specifics, but it was bundled with a specially configured version of Internet Explorer in a mode much like kiosk mode, but even more locked down. No right click menu, navigation, etc. Just basically a full-screen browser with no chrome. Administrators had to hit a special key sequence to exit.
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