Sounds like a good plan. I would like to hear what people would like to see in FoXwiki. It would be fun to add simple features to make XWikiers life easier using a Firefox extension
Ludovic Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > 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 > > -- 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
