Backend
Shortcuts
Via special shortcut URLs it is possible to quickly access the model page of a particular PA-RISC computer:
http://www.openpa.net/MODEL
Where MODEL is the model-number of the desired PA-RISC
computer, for instance 712, 735, B180L, C240, D280, J6000.
The browser is then automatically redirected to the correct page in the
computers section.
All new systems pages are added to the shortcuts mechanism.
Rationale: earlier versions of OpenPA (pre-2004) featured an index page with a list with direct links to all systems pages, which was a convenient way to quickly navigate to information on a particular system. In a large redesign of OpenPA in 2004 this list was removed on the way, since over the time it just got way too large to maintain and did not fit onto the new index page. The shortcuts solution was designed afterward to make direct access to individual systems pages again possible. [However, statistics show few actually use this feature —Ed.]
Print stylesheet
Due to the addition of and subsequent later improvements to the media:print stylesheets
the Openpa pages now have a quite useful print-out quality.
External links (i.e. links with an http:// in front to pages which are not
located on this site) are correctly annotated with footnotes in the printout.
These links are underlined in print and their URL placed in a Links list
with their respective footnote number.
The implementation is based on the ALA article: Improving Link Display for Print and makes use of the Footnote Links code from Aaron Gustafson.
The only notable difference from the reference implementation is the positive matching of external links,
which are grouped in an a.ext CSS class and selected on this criterion from the Javascript
processor. Small changes were also applied to the way links are annotated in the text and later grouped
in an ordered list — the original code just used numbers for both, but since some pages on this site
already use numbered footnotes (for explanations and references) a difference had to be made in printouts
between these footnotes and URL footnotes.
The other changes are of cosmetic nature, including prettier display of the ordered list of URLs.
Statistics
| Year | Pages | Sections | Words | Tables | Lists | Paragraphs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 82 (+2 -4) | 542 | 117.126 (+2.04%) | 154 | 1318 | 903 |
| 2008 | 84 (+19 -1) | 551 | 114.790 (+44,79%) | 124 | 1214 | 869 |
| 2007 | 66 (+1) | 393 | 79.180 (+4,67%) | 63 | 847 | 617 |
| 2006 | 65 (+2) | 383 | 75.647 (+1,50%) | 63 | 796 | 582 |
| 2005 | 63 (+3 -3) | 371 | 74.523 (+6,29%) | 63 | 779 | 654 |
| 2004 | 63 (+12 -5) | 360 | 70.111 (+21,86%) | 62 | 766 | 513 |
| 2003 | 56 (+21 -2) | 318 | 57.534 (+84,11%) | 58 | 615 | 350 |
| 2002 | 37 (+21 -5) | 158 | 31.250 (+300,11%) | 88 | 356 | 438 |
| 2001 | 21 | 0 | 10.413 | 27 | 27 | 31 |
| 2000 | ||||||
| 1999 | 23 | 0 | 2.720 | 5 | 0 | 118 |
Changes are relative to the preceding year. Data was compiled from CVS checkouts from December 31 of each year. (1999-2000 did not use version control, an old archive was used for the 1999 data.)
Markup and backend:
| Year | CSS lines | <div>/ page |
class="…"/ page |
Print edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1237 (+206 -181) | 6,38 | 25,90 | 2.2 (350pp), 2.3 (363pp) |
| 2008 | 1212 (+179 -93) | 6,36 | 25,17 | 2.0 (355pp), 2.1 (377pp) |
| 2007 | 1126 (+493 -167) | 6,42 | 40,26 | 1.1/1.2 (267pp) |
| 2006 | 800 (+67 -26) | 6,38 | 21,94 | 1.0 (248pp) |
| 2005 | 759 (+586 -327) | 6,40 | 21,24 | |
| 2004 | 500 (+490 -166) | 4,44 | 17,10 | |
| 2003 | 176 (+176) | 0,05 | 1,38 | |
| 2002 | Table layout | 0,32 | 0 | |
| 2001 | Pure HTML | 0,90 | 0 | |
| 2000 | Pure HTML | |||
| 1999 | Frames | 0,04 | 0 |