[kdewebdev-site] Proposed Quanta public site structure

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Monday 01 March 2004 9:53 pm, Bill Chmura wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:34 am, Chris Hornbaker wrote:
> > > ...Comparison chart
> >
> > Compare to what? All of them? Just proprietary? Should we be selective
> > (ie. just show the ones we meet or beat)?
>
> I've been wrestling with the ethics involved here.   I guess I am thinking
> at this point that we list everything Quanta does and then all the other
> products and check them up against Quanta.  All the advertising does it
> that way so that means its okay right?

I don't really know if it's such a great idea to make hard core comparisons to 
open source projects... I mean we don't want to look like we're rubbing FLOSS 
noses in it. Besides, who cares? We're shooting for the biggest fish anyway. 
Any comparisons I would prefer to be against commercial products that 
register at least 10-20% of the market in surveys.
>
> > > Screen Shots
> > > Quanta can...
> >
> > Wouldn't the Features section cover this?
>
> The features section would be more data orienteed... the Quanta can could
> be more text orienteed for different types of users.   Sections could
> expand on how Quanta does project management best, or the integration of
> different things.  Maybe this should be part of the features?  I like the
> idea of both a list approach and discussion approach.  hmmmm
>
> > > Can Quanta do XHTML?
> >
> > XHTML isn't anything special. How about just XML in general?
>
> I XHTML can be validated and get a w3c sticker or something :)  Besides its
> a buzzword, so its gotta be good right :)

Actually that's Chris' area and he's right. There's a world of difference. 
There is no crossover generally. Many tools like Dreamweaver have been 
updated for XHTML but most XML is developed on Java tools. Java is slow. XML 
support of any ability is news, even if to a smaller group.
>
> > Isn't Quanta Gold technically Quanta Plus' competitor?
>
> Does Quanta Gold come for Linux?  I thought it was windows only, like
> Quanta being *nix only.  I could be wrong though

You are wrong, and I want to be clear about this. 
1) We have NO affiliation with that product.
2) We are under no obligation to promote it or carry over any front page 
credit or links to the authors. (Not very much of Quanta is their code any 
more)
3) It does run on Linux and may run on OS X.
4) It is not a viable feature for feature alternative.
5) You can run Quanta Plus on windows with Cygwin.

I hope this is the last time I see old news on this site. If not for my 
conviction and opposition Quanta Plus would be a dead program that only ran 
on KDE 2 and didn't have hardly any features. We're promoting open source 
here. BTW whatever you do don't order it and look at the source because it is 
licensed where they expose proprietary source much like Microsoft offers 
"shared source". You may have heard in recent news "don't look at the source" 
regarding the latest hack.

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Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader 
http://kdewebdev.org  eric at kdewebdev.org
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