diff: w3 news update.

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,

More updates to the web page.  Pete beter look at this.

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Estimated hours taken: 1.5

include/functions.inc:
include/index.inc:
news/newsdb.inc:
	Update the news index with a bit more news, and a new news
	format that allows titles as well as descriptions.
	This is flexible enough for use to use the title as a
	link to the news, or put the news under the title.


Index: include/functions.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/functions.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 functions.inc
--- functions.inc	1998/09/04 06:52:48	1.1
+++ functions.inc	1998/09/07 08:54:32
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 <?
 function newsitem($date, $item) {
+
+	list($title, $news) = $item;
+
 	echo "<tr>";
 	list($day, $month, $year) = split(" ",$date);
 
@@ -8,7 +11,9 @@
 	echo "]</tt></td>";
 
 	echo "<td><strong>";
-	echo $item;
-	echo "</strong></td></tr>";
+	echo $title;
+	echo "</strong><br>\n";
+	echo $news;
+	echo "</td></tr>";
 }
 ?>
Index: include/index.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/index.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 index.inc
--- index.inc	1998/09/04 06:52:48	1.2
+++ index.inc	1998/09/07 09:05:28
@@ -8,3 +8,10 @@
     include "$root/include/latest_news.inc";
 ?>
 </table>
+
+<p>
+
+This list contains only the latest news items.<br>
+For older news items, see the
+(<a href="<? echo $root ?>/news.html">complete news archive</a>).
+
Index: news/newsdb.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 newsdb.inc
--- newsdb.inc	1998/09/04 06:53:09	1.1
+++ newsdb.inc	1998/09/07 08:53:05
@@ -4,51 +4,104 @@
 ** This is the news database.
 **
 ** Add new items at the top in chronological order.
+**
+** Each item consists of
+**	date =>
+**	array( title,
+**	    description
+**	),
 ** Make sure you put a comma between each item, and an arrow
 ** between the date and the news.
 */
 
 $newsdb = array(
 
-	"1 Sep 1998" => 
-"Mercury 0.8 due for release during September.",
+"7 Sep 1998" => array("The Mercury Web Site overhauled.",
 
-	"4 Aug 1998" => 
+"The new layout is easier for us to update with news (like this),
+and has full hypermail archives of the <em>mercury-developers</em> and 
+<em>mercury-users</em> mailing lists.
+Thanks to <a href=\"mailto:petdr at cs.mu.oz.au\">Peter Ross</a>
+for all his work on it."
+),
+
+"1 Sep 1998" => array("Mercury 0.8 due for release during September.",
+
+"We aim to release the long awaited Mercury 0.8 sometime this month.
+Keep watching here for further information."
+),
+
+"4 Aug 1998" => array("Mmake extensions.",
+
 "Mmake has been extended to support setting flags on a per-file basis,
-and will now warn about variables which are defined but not used.",
+and will now warn about variables which are defined but not used."
+),
+
+"9 Jul 1998" => array("Existential types.",
+
+"Preliminary support for existential types has been added to Mercury.
+For those of you that aren't theorists, this means you can declare
+polymorphic arguments that are outputs, and their type is also
+an output."
+),
+
+"1 Feb 1998" => array("Ported to glibc.",
+
+"Mercury 0.7.3 has been ported to glibc for Debian GNU/Linux."
+),
+
+"1 Nov 1997" => array("Mercury 0.7.3 released.",
+
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">here</A>."
+),
+
+"13 Oct 1997" => array("Mercury 0.7.2 released.",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">here</A>."
+),
+
+"15 Aug 1997" => array("Mercury 0.7 released.",
+
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">here</A>."
+),
+
+"14 Jan 1997" => array("Mercury 0.6.2 released.",
 
-	"9 Jul 1998" =>
-"Preliminary support for existential types has been added to Mercury.",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">here</A>."
+),
 
-	"1 Feb 1998" =>
-"Mercury 0.7.3 has been ported to glibc for Debian GNU/Linux.",
+"26 Aug 1996" => array("Mercury 0.6.1 released.",
 
-	"1 Nov 1997" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">Mercury 0.7.3 released.</A>",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">here</A>."
+),
 
-	"13 Oct 1997" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">Mercury 0.7.2 released.</A>",
+"2 Aug 1996" => array("Mercury 0.6 released.",
 
-	"15 Aug 1997" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.7.html\">Mercury 0.7 released.</A>",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">here</A>."
+),
 
-	"14 Jan 1997" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">Mercury 0.6.2 released.</A>",
+"15 Feb 1996" => array("Mercury 0.5 released.",
 
-	"26 Aug 1996" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">Mercury 0.6.1 released.</A>",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.5.html\">here</A>."
+),
 
-	"2 Aug 1996" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.6.html\">Mercury 0.6 released.</A>",
+"15 Sep 1995" => array("Mercury 0.4 released.",
 
-	"15 Feb 1996" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.5.html\">Mercury 0.5 released.</A>",
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.4.html\">here</A>."
+),
 
-	"15 Sep 1995" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.4.html\">Mercury 0.4 released.</A>",
+"18 Jul 1995" => array("Mercury 0.3 released.",
 
-	"18 Jul 1995" =>
-"<A HREF=\"download/release-0.3.html\">Mercury 0.3 released.</A>"
+"Release information can be found
+<A HREF=\"download/release-0.4.html\">here</A>."
+)
 
 );
 


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