Niels Mayer wrote: > This could be an interesting way to select media (images, video/audio, > documents) in xwiki: > http://www.simile-widgets.org/runway/ > >> This widget lets you display images in a rich interactive visualization >> similar to that of Apple iTunes known as Cover Flow. It is a Flash-based >> implementation ... The Flash widget can fire events to update the web page's >> Javascript. .... The web page's Javascript can change the Flash widget on >> the fly. Documentation<http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Runway> >> Mailing List <http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets> (for >> technical support, etc.) >> Code<http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/source/browse/#svn/runway/trunk>(open >> source, BSD license)... >> > > I think it would be useful in the anchor/link wizard in the wysiwyg editor, > lending an itunes style album-cover-flipping style interface to process of > link and image. selection in xwiki. It would be great if we could render > semi-readable scaled-down thumbnails of existing xwiki documents in the > cover-flow browser.
I am against this, since flash is a proprietary, unstandardized format. I'd rather we don't add another requirement in order to be able to use XWiki. > Yet another GSOC project... though I bet the basic interface to 'runway' is > pretty trivial in xwiki ... (e.g. of similar complexity and > interface-ability is the youtube chromeless player: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Todo/YoutubeChromelessPlayer then again > ... I can't figure out why my example doesn't work in IE, yet fine in > safari&firefox -- probably because having a menagerie-a-trois of languages > to deal with by adding flash to the picture always leads to trouble...) -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
