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the Deme wiki

This wiki is currently in use just for developers, or people interested in development.

ToDoList (this is obsolete - superceded by Deme Team's project tracking tool)

DesignIssues - (old but still useful) matters related to Deme's (POD's) design, interface, and structure relative to user goals and habits

UserIssues - Todd's old page of name changes, desired feature changes, raw bugs, and problems

FutureFeatures - for the longer term outlook.

DemeGlossary - all the funny terms used in Deme.

DevelopersManual - technical documentation of Deme's code, for developers and administrators.

OnlineDeliberationLinks - outside projects of relevance, esp. having to do with groupware, deliberation, and democracy.

UserResearch - information relating to user research, such as interviews, focus groups, etc.

and scholarship information

OtherResearch - article and websites with background research on salient groupware

CommunityResearchLinks - links for writing papers about EPA.net

PiecePrivate - pages private to the PIECE project.

NameChanges - a mostly obsolete older buglist.

PythonRewriteThoughts - don't bother reading at this point

Web-browser technologies: HTML, CSS, "Classic" Javascript, "Newfangled" DOM/Javascript, DHTML

(Note: the distinction between "classic" and "newfangled" javascript was made up here. But it's real: window.open, history.back, document.write and the like have all been around since the mid-90's, but the DOM stuff like document.getElementById is a much more recent innovation. The literature on Javascript seems to be divided between these two topics, though it's often very confusingly labelled.)download movies
CSS reference on w3schools
HTML reference on w3schools

also, there's the general Mozilla web developer documentation though much of it is head-in-clouds standards stuff. Almost as useless as the official W3C standards documentation.

JavaScript 1.3 Reference - Yes, it's old, but very useful. The newest javascript 1.5 reference doesn't say a word about "classic" the browser API.

This was originally hosted at netscape via this link, but there, the clueless powers that be have taken it down. We have our own mirror now.

Mesothelioma doctors - excellent resource.
O'Reilly's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" is extremely excellent. It covers both "classic" and "newfangled" javascript. It is available via safari.oreilly though it's unclear whether it'll always be freely available there.
Gecko DOM Reference is OK.
Library Checksum Value is OK.
MSDN DHTML Reference - often better than mozilla docs, but lookout for evil MS incompatibilities. Someone needs to write something just as good for Mozilla/W3C standards.
Need to find documentation on XMLHTTPRequest, a javascript feature which is rapidly increasing in popularity; it will completely change around how web apps are made, eventually. 8McDo

google for "threading" and "in-reply-to" or "references" generates useful stuff
In-Reply-To and References is good enough, is suggested by http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/~antonio/mhonarc/faq/threads.html
the jwz threading algorithm is talked about a lot, but is about a slightly different problem domain than what we're dealing with (we already do sibling sorting etc. elsewhere) Useful ideas though -- relies on In-Reply-To and References quite a bit as well. keep in mind it might be a bit dated.

Check out the HelpContents -- but basically, all you really have to do is click on "Edit Text of this page" down at the bottom.