UKNM: Amazing boo header

[Clay Shirky]

Some background on boo's dilemma:


Their global_header file has a comment at the beginning that reads


<!-- The following code is /global_include.htm.  It is included onto

every .tem file on this site.  *******HOWEVER********, any changes to

it must also be cut-and-pasted (or cooked) into all flat .html pages

(i.e., all files in /msboo, /dressingroom, and /zoomspin).  (These

.html pages need to stay .html pages -- not converted to parseable

.tem files -- because they need to be cached by the user for optimal

experience. Any changes or additions to IW-proprietary TL code must

therefore still be JavaScript-syntactically correct UNPARSED --

otherwise we will need to start maintaining two versions of this code

-- a version meant to be included and parsed, and a version meant to

be cut-and- pasted (or cooked) and not parsed.  Finally, changes to

this code must be reconciled with /global_atio_include.htm on the Atio

web server.  -->


Got that? They have a global file whose contents have to be included

in at least three directories using *cut and paste* and then

*synchronized across servers manually*. 


As every technologist on this list knows, this ensures that the site

will devolve into a morass of conflicting functionality as javascript

versions roll out of sync with one another.


Add to that the fact that the global header file is 13K - not just the

HTML, merely the *header file*, which is like deciding to make users

wait through the download of an animated banner add before anything

else renders.


As we say in my neck of the woods, oy vey...


-clay 


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