Paul Libbrecht wrote: > > Asiri, > > does this mean that Windows-Web-Folder and MacOSX-webdav-connection > are *also* expected to work just not popping up? I understand the > usage of an extension such as foxwiki only in order to make this easy > but honestly I find copy-and-paste of the URL, adding appropriate > credientals, is the thing that should and must work before any other. > I'm not sure what you exactly mean. The UI integration *is* based on Windows Web Folder and MacOSX. We are only talking about simplifying the launch and not required people to mount disks. Unfortunately we cannot guess file system links concerning mounted disks, so the only URL we can give is an HTTP url. This is what the native JS in IE and the Firefox extension can do. Run Word or OpenOffice with the right URL as a parameter.
Ludovic > paul > > Le 15-sept.-08 à 20:47, Asiri Rathnayake a écrit : > >> Hi Devs, >> >> From today onwards I'll be working on integrating the xwiki-webdav >> plugin in >> the xwiki ui. And in the process i will resurrect the foxwiki firefox >> extension as well. >> >> By integrating xwiki-webdav on the xwiki ui, we mean to provide the >> users >> the ability to open / edit / save various types of attachments with >> their >> favourite editor. >> For an example, we'll provide a "open with word" link next to a ".doc" >> attachment in the attachments section of the UI. When the user clicks on >> this link it will fire up word and let the user edit the content and >> save it >> back as he/she wishes. >> >> Currently this functionality is available natively on IE (phew) and >> there >> isn't much to be done on that. But for this to work on firefox we're >> going >> to have to resurrect the foxwiki extension. So the tentative workplan >> would >> be as bellow: >> >> * Make foxwiki work with firefox 3 - (Estimated : 2 days - Already >> started >> working on this) >> * Add the functionality to load the corresponding application (to >> edit the >> attachment) via foxwiki - (Estimated : 3 days ?) >> * Provide a common javascript API (javascript.vm ?) that can be used to >> launch an application from pages - (Estimated : ?) >> * Modify attachments.vm to automatically include the links for editing >> attachments. >> >> These are the goals I currently have in my mind and i'm still bit shaky >> about some topics myself. If any of you have sugesstions / comments / >> thoughts please let me know. >> >> Thanks. >> >> - Asiri >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
