[Grok-dev] grokproject and default index.pt

Mon May 26 19:35:50 EDT 2008

When you start a grokproject it sets up index.pt which sucks and
you're encouraged to immediately get that working.
However, I think we can win a couple of quick brownie points by making
index.pt a bit better. Let's make it at least XHTML with a decent
doctype (I suggest XHTML Transitional) and properly indented tags.

Here's the current one:
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<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Congratulations!</h1>

  <p>Your Grok application is up and running.
  Edit <code>${package}/app_templates/index.pt</code> to change
  this page.</p>
</body>
</html>
--------------------------------------------------------------------

I suggest we change this to:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>Congratulations! Your Grok application is up and running</title>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <style type="text/css">
    body { font-family:sans-serif; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Congratulations!</h1>

  <p>Your Grok application is up and running.
  Edit <code>${package}/app_templates/index.pt</code> to change
  this page.</p>
</body>
</html>
--------------------------------------------------------------------

It's not hugely important but will send a nice message to newbies.

Let me know what you think. I'm happy to commit it but won't unless
people like the idea.

This is what Django defaults to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
  ...lots of style but also quite messy HTML...

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