I forgot to add one thing: - propose people to download the FF extension if they do not have it - allow to see the webdav URL (to allow copy pasting)
Nice to have in the future: - allow to configure the mounted disk name to construct a URL linking to the mounted disk (this would allow not to have to relogin to your webdav wiki) Ludovic Ludovic Dubost wrote: > 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
