Chris Dwan has been spearheading a full documentation effort for Mephisto. It’s far from complete, but there’s already some basic information filled out to get you started. There’s also a spot to ask those tough questions if you find you need some specific help. Everything is implemented in Stikipad if you’d like to pitch in. However, with the success of the Prototype site (the Prototype core team did a bang-up job), I’m leaning towards eventually moving this to another Mephisto site on this instance.
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About Mephisto
Mephisto was baked to golden perfection by Rick Olson(Development) and Justin Palmer(UI/Design) with contributions from a bunch of cool people.
That’s great news Rick!
Having just finished up a Mephisto site I had occasional moments of cursing the lack of documentation, but managed to struggle through it. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this and try to contribute where I can.
What it be?
How about documenting that the ”...visit or login…” doesn’t work!
But, more interesting, I noticed you are using the text-shadow property in your CSS. Interesting and bold move. I know much of the active ruby and rails communities are on Macs like me, but I haven’t even seen Apple make use of the text-shadow property since only webKit based browsers currently implement it. I’ve read in some places that it is deprecated, or marked to be deprecated. (and hope it isn’t) Unfortunately, Windows users can not know the pleasure of this little property. So what’s your rationale for using it? (just curious)
John: It looks nice for folks in Safari and doesn’t harm anyone else. That’s how progressive enhancement is supposed to work.
(Prelude): You know, i “love” this page
To get to here, I go from official web page (mephistoblog.com), to “Wiki” (DOWN Below on the far right), to search for “about”, to … oh i finally see it – “What is Mephisto by Anonymous (192.168.0.3) 5 months ago”. That’s nice)
End Prelude.
Whatever. WHAT are its goals??? I have no idea at all. (Even though I like Rails, and am picking up rails atm) I’m not even so sure whether I should pick up, or go with mephisto, or whatever. Please (I wouldn’t have believed that this would have been a mistake commited by a project like this) do not assume that everybody who comes to the site will know exactly what mephisto is about, or what it hopes to do, or how it hopes to get there, or what it plans to achieve, .... Like does everybody around here????
As far as i’m concerned, that should have been like the NUMBER ONE THING that you guys worked on in the documentation – but instead we see stuff like diving straight into the details of the this, and the that, and the “oh, this is the markup”, and the “if”, and the “else”, and the… oh, whatever.
Have found nothink in the documentation (or elsewhere -“Google Group”, whatever) fors our info regardink mephisto, thank u.
sorry. Is havink to modify link because somehow it got corrupted. Correct link is http://mephisto.stikipad.com/help/show/What+is+Mephisto
“help pls” – the documentation is being written by some contributers to the project right now. I’m pretty much okay with Mephisto not being completely accessible to the newbie that doesn’t immediately dive into the source code and months of archives in the google group. I’d like to be able to step up in that department when I have time though.