in reply to Promoting Perl events on other Perl sites

I quite like that idea.

And if you really want to push that, you'll provide a web service that creates such a snippet. (If I get the tuits I'll do it, but that might take quite some time).

For example you provide a service at http://mydomain.com/perllinks?ip=$ip;links=5, and that returns just a snippet of valid xhtml that contains up to 5 perl links, complete with nice css classes.

Then anybody who wants to provide such a service just has to query your server.

Of course, the more possibilities you provide the more people will adopt that.

Update Nice work, really. I'd prefer a pure html version though (I kinda hate javascript), but it's a start ;-)

In the copy&paste code you should use absolute URLs, so that it works on different hosts as well.

The generated HTML lacks some markup (lists should made as <ul>...</ul>) and css classes.

On the homepage I'm missing a contact link, for example to propose new links and for technical questions/suggestions.

I know it's a beta, so maybe I'm stating the obvious...

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Re^2: Promoting Perl events on other Perl sites
by szabgab (Priest) on Nov 09, 2007 at 16:00 UTC
    Yes, I am adding the contact info and some text to explain what it is about and how to use.

    I am not sure how could one provide pure HTML version?

    I can provide a link on the server that would send some ads as pure HTML but how would you integrate them?

      I would integrate them by fetching them via LWP or something similar. Or perhaps per SSI, I don't know if that works. Or perhaps in an iframe. There are plenty of possible ways ;-)