Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] docs: Use CDNJS, update JavaScript libraries

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > That would be an improvement on the current situation, but it would > > also mean hooking up a JavaScript minifier to our build system. I'm > > not quite sure how those things work, but I think the ones that are > > widely used depend on node.js and who knows how many nano-libraries > > pulled from NPM to do their thing? > > Fedora has uglify-js RPM present in its repos which is trivial > to install & use > > $ uglify-js foo.js > foo.min.js > > If a distro lacks this package, simply don't minimize it. Alright, I'll admit that's not as bad as I feared :) > > Counter-proposal: can we just get rid of the RSS widget from the > > homepage? That's literally the only reason we included all this > > JavaScript in the first place. It's cute, but possibly not worth > > the effort if you take into account having to spend time keeping up > > with updates to jQuery and friends, which if history is any > > indication we'd do a pretty awful job at anyway. > > > > As a data point, the QEMU website provides a link to Planet Virt > > Tools in its footer. We could do the same: we even already have a > > bunch of links there. > > Hiding a link in the footer is really poor in comparison. The point > of having the feed content on the website is that it gives direct > visibility to visitors of the site. Far fewer will notice & follow > a link in the footer. We need to be improving visibility of relevant > content, not making it worse. > > Updating jQuery is not a burden / timesink. It is something we > haven't considered a priority to bother with as it has just worked > fine. So there's no compelling reason to remove it when it is > serving an important use case. I'm okay with having links to Planet Virt Tools very visible, but I disagree that the only way to achieve that is through a JavaScript powered blog roll. For example, we could keep the third column of the homepage and rename it to "Community", then move all the "Community" links from the footer to that column. Pretty visible still, and no JavaScript, Would you consider that acceptable?