How about that new AdaIC?

How about that new AdaIC?

[Britt Snodgrass]

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new look (total redesign)
of the Ada Information Clearinghouse site: http://www.adaic.org.  It
presents a much more positive and modernized image of Ada.  Thanks to
everyone who worked on this!

- Britt

Re: How about that new AdaIC?

[Thomas Løcke]

On 2010-12-24 02:53, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
> I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new look (total redesign)
> of the Ada Information Clearinghouse site: http://www.adaic.org.  It
> presents a much more positive and modernized image of Ada.  Thanks to
> everyone who worked on this!


Well, I did mention it a week ago:

http://ada-dk.org/?page=news&news_id=227

I like the new website very much. As you say, it presents a modern and
"we're alive and well!" image of Ada.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas L�cke

Email: tl at ada-dk.org
Web: http:ada-dk.org
IRC nick: ThomasLocke

Re: How about that new AdaIC?

[Georg Bauhaus]

On 24.12.10 02:53, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
> I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new look (total redesign)
> of the Ada Information Clearinghouse site: http://www.adaic.org.  It
> presents a much more positive and modernized image of Ada.  Thanks to
> everyone who worked on this!

After the c&p text will have been edited, it might even be more
convincing:

"Indeed, a revised and upward-compatible version of the Ada standard is
expected in 2005, bringing a number of enhancements inspired by user
experience with Ada 95."

http://www.adaic.org/advantages/features-benefits/

It's in div[@name="business"]/p[4]

Re: How about that new AdaIC?

[Randy Brukardt]

"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message 
news:4d1884fa$0$6760$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net...
> On 24.12.10 02:53, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
>> I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the new look (total redesign)
>> of the Ada Information Clearinghouse site: http://www.adaic.org.  It
>> presents a much more positive and modernized image of Ada.  Thanks to
>> everyone who worked on this!

And it only took three years to get to launch... :-)

> After the c&p text will have been edited, it might even be more
> convincing:
>
> "Indeed, a revised and upward-compatible version of the Ada standard is
> expected in 2005, bringing a number of enhancements inspired by user
> experience with Ada 95."
>
> http://www.adaic.org/advantages/features-benefits/
>
> It's in div[@name="business"]/p[4]

We've been finding stuff like that periodically. It's best to report them to 
webmaster@adaic.org (which is a mailing list that goes to all of the people 
involved).

BTW, I am *not* involved with this new AdaIC web site other than as an 
interested bystander. So sending mail to me or posting here may not actually 
get to the people who are maintaining the site. (I'm still maintaining the 
archive site and Ada-Auth.org.)

                          Randy Brukardt.


 

Re: How about that new AdaIC?

[Saulo]

And what about a new look for Ada-Auth.org too!? :D

SauLo

Re: How about that new AdaIC?

[Randy Brukardt]

"Saulo" <saulo@gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:05f82caf-2073-4ee6-af24-1934e68ad3ea@i18g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> And what about a new look for Ada-Auth.org too!? :D

May I ask why? The purpose of Ada-Auth.org is to provide information; most 
of that information is natively plain text (AIs, Ada source code) and 
attempting to dress it up would detract from the information. (The attempt 
to provide prettier AIs in the version control system also leads to lots of 
people complaining about failures in the automated formatting; it's not 
possible to provide both pretty and 100% accurate results.)

I can see the value of "pretty" for marketing-related sites, but not for raw 
information, especially if it gets in the way of accurately presenting that 
information.

                            Randy.