[usocket-cvs] r265 - public_html

[ehuelsmann at common-lisp.net]

Author: ehuelsmann
Date: Tue Jun  5 17:20:43 2007
New Revision: 265

Modified:
   public_html/feature-comparison.shtml
   public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml
   public_html/index.shtml
Log:
Update webpages.

Modified: public_html/feature-comparison.shtml
==============================================================================
--- public_html/feature-comparison.shtml	(original)
+++ public_html/feature-comparison.shtml	Tue Jun  5 17:20:43 2007
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
   The latter implements different feature-sets for different backends while
   the former supplies consistent functionality for all backends.</p>
 
-<table style="border:3px solid black">
+<div style="border:3px solid black;padding: 2px; margin: 0px">
+<table style="border:1px solid black;" border=1 cellspacing=1>
 <tr><th colspan="2">Feature</th>
     <th colspan="8">In trivial-sockets?</th><th rowspan="2">In usocket?</th></tr>
 <tr><th colspan="2"></th><th title="ArmedBear">ABCL</th>
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
              <th>LispWorks</th>
              <th>OpenMCL</th>
              <th>SBCL</th>
-             <th>(all)</th>
+             <th>overall</th>
              </tr>
 <tr><th rowspan="3">Client side tcp streams</th><th>:element-type</th>
   <td>Yes</td> <!-- ABCL -->
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
 
 <tr><th rowspan="5">Server socket creation</th>
     <th>Binding specific local port</th>
-    <td colspan="8">Yes</td>
+    <td colspan="9">Yes</td>
 
 </tr>
 <tr><th>Binding specific local interface</th>
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@
     <td>Yes*</td>
 
 <tr><th>:element-type for created connections</th>
-    <td colspan="7">No</td>
+    <td colspan="8">No</td>
     <td>Yes</td>
 
 <tr><th rowspan="5">Accepting connections</th>
@@ -133,11 +134,20 @@
 
 </tr>
 </table>
+</div>
 
 <p>In summary: there are only a very limited number of features you can depend
 on to work on all platforms supported by trivial-sockets. While usocket
 doesn't support all features, you can depend on the features to be available.
 </p>
 
+<hr />
+
+<div style="float:left;font-size:x-small;font-weight:bold">
+Back to <a href="http://common-lisp.net/">Common-lisp.net</a>.
+</div>
+ <div class="check" style="float:right">
+   <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict</a>
+ </div>
 </body>
 </html>

Modified: public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml
==============================================================================
--- public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml	(original)
+++ public_html/implementation-comparison.shtml	Tue Jun  5 17:20:43 2007
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
 </tr>
 <tr><th>Corman</th><td>no</td><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>no (to come)</td><td>no</td><td>no</td>
 </tr>
+<tr style="background-color:#efe"><th>Total #</th><td>8</td><td>7(+1)</td><td>4</td><td>9</td><td>6</td><td>3</td>
+</tr>
 </tbody>
 
 

Modified: public_html/index.shtml
==============================================================================
--- public_html/index.shtml	(original)
+++ public_html/index.shtml	Tue Jun  5 17:20:43 2007
@@ -40,9 +40,23 @@
 <p>If your lisp isn't mentioned in the list below, please feel free to
 submit a request for it at the mailing list mentioned below.</p>
 
-<p>See the <a href="feature-comparison.shtml">feature comparison</a> with
+<h3>Comparison to other socket libraries</h3>
+
+<p>Since usocket is effectively the succesor to trivial-sockets, see the
+  <a href="feature-comparison.shtml">feature comparison</a> with
   trivial-sockets in order to find out which one you should use.</p>
 
+<p>After starting the project, many others turned out to have worked on
+  something alike, many times as part of a broader project or library.
+  Some of them were known at the start of this project, others have
+  been conceived after the usocket project already started. Not all of
+  them have exactly the same portability goal.</p>
+
+<p>See the <a href="implementation-comparison.shtml">Implementation
+    comparison</a> page for a comparison of the portability of other
+  libaries and how that relates to usocket.</p>
+
+
 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
 
 <p>See the documentation page for the <a href="./api-docs.shtml">API description</a>.</p>
@@ -63,11 +77,6 @@
   <li>Scieneer</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p>To see how this list relates to the supported implementations in other
-socket libraries, see the
-<a href="implementation-comparison.shtml">Implementation comparison</a>
-page.</p>
-
 <h2><a name="community">Community</a></h2>
 
  <p>This project has started Januari 2006.  There isn't much of a community