On 3/19/07, Elias Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does this work depend on groovy, ruby, etc?
No. Apart from the UI tweaks, all I'm doing is adding a way for users to specify for each Template: 1) the template language used by the page and 2) the content-type generated by a template. Roller already supports plugin renderrers and the renderer that is chosen depends on the renderrers that are configured and the template-language of the page being. This change simply makes it possible to use plugin renderrers without editing the database via SQL to set each page's language name. I have developed some plugin renderrers for Groovy and JavaScript and though they are currently in the sandbox, the Roller Support project might be a better home for them. - Dave
-Elias Allen Gilliland wrote: > I agree with most of these changes, but here's a few things I don't > really like ... > > 1. On the templates list page I don't think we need the column for the > content-type. The overwhelming majority of users don't care about > manually managing the content type for their templates so I think we > want to keep that completely hidden and only available in that advanced > settings section. > > 2. On the templates list page I don't like having 2 columns which are > links. To me that is confusing and bad usability, so I think that only > the template name should be a link. In fact, I don't think we need to > have the "link" column in the templates list page at all. I don't > really think it adds much value and we are best off just making things > as simple as possible. > > So with #1 and #2 applied I think that the templates list page should > just include Name, Description, and the icon for locked/delete. This is > a good thing too because it will leave more room for better > descriptions, which is something I think we should do for our > standardized templates like the Weblog template. > > 3. I would put the content-type and template language controls as the > first 2 elements under the advanced settings page. > > 4. I think the content-type control should work differently than you > described. I think the only 2 options should be "automatic" and > "manual". So for automatic content-type it would work exactly how it > does now where we ask the appserver for the content type based on the > link value and text/html is the default. For manual we just provide a > textfield for the user to specify whatever they want. Default would be > for automatic content-type detection. And with the automatic > content-type detection we would actually do that at the time the form is > submitted rather than at rendering time like we do now. > > -- Allen > > > Dave wrote: >> This is a proposal to make some minor usability and functionality >> improvements to the UI of the Template Editor pages. The functionality >> improvements allow a user to set the content-type and language for a >> page, with together make it possible to take advantage of the Roller >> rendering system's pluggable renderers. >> >> Screen-shots included in proposal: >> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal_TemplateEditorEnhancements >> >> >> Please review, I'd like to commit this work this week. >> >> - Dave >
