Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Don't know much about the portal, but this proposal triggered a few
thoughts.
First of all, using path elements to identify objects and actions, and
possibly allowing to have multiple pairs is likely to cause problems by
forbidding the use of relative URLs for links, images, etc. A separator
other than "/" would solve this.
In general true, but not inside the portal - the portal creates or
rewrites all urls. So the portal is taking care of this.
Now about bookmarking. You speak about "sending events". Does it make
sense to bookmark a URL that sends an event? What if the bookmark is
displayed again later in a system state where that event doesn't make sense?
The current bookmark feature does exactly the same. Now the proposal is
not about all events that are possible in the portal. It's just for the
most common ones, like switching the tab.
Now, users of the portal want "readable urls", they want something like
http://my.great.portal.com/index.html or
http://my.great.portal.com/news.html
(If *we* like the .html at the end or not is not the question.)
Currently the urls look like
http://my.great.porta.com/portal?cocoon-portal-event=27
Even with page labels the url is not that much better.
I beg to differ. I actually implemented pageLabels based upon explicit
requirements I was given from our web authors. i.e. they wanted a syntax
like pageLabel=maintab1.subnavitem2.thirdnav1. And while I will admit
that the event data passed to the portlet url is somewhat obscure, it is
very similar to that used by pluto (since I borrowed some of the logic
from them).
With the proposal we are able to have urls like
http://my.great.portal.com/page/index.html
And how would this look with three nav levels and a portlet url and the
fullscreen event?
And these urls are always valid, so the created events always make
sense. I think this currently only makes sense for the tab layout to
switch the tab and perhaps for some "main content" portlet displaying
the main content.
I still don't understand why you want to do this. All the plumbing is
there now.
Carsten
Ralph
