Sounds ok but to be discussed with Thomas Mortagne... :) Thanks -Vincent
On Sep 3, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Anca Luca wrote: > Hi devs, > > A > I started to try to implement this idea, and I found 2 options for the > editing the dashboard in "html mode" (not as wiki syntax but as the > rendered html with nice UI). Editing will be based on the annotated html > rendering of the dashboard, to be able to identify where one gadget > macro starts and where it ends. There are 2 options: > > Short story: > > 1/ make a special parser to parse the wiki syntax content of the > dashboard, column and nested section macros back from the edited xhtml. > > 2/ use operations to transmit the alterations to the server (move, > delete, add, etc) and servers applies these operations on the XDOM built > for the content of these macros. > > Long story: see > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HImplementation > , especially the "edit mode" paragraph. > > B > Also, there is a question about allowing and rendering any content in > view mode in the dashboard macro (since normally a section/column macro > allows any kind of content and for a dashboard we could limit it only to > macro calls which are in the gadgets category). See > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HImplementation > the "view mode" paragraph. > > I will start implementing A 1/ to see how it goes and allow anything for B. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Anca > > On 08/12/2010 06:43 PM, Anca Luca wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> knowing that gadgets will be xwiki macros instances (in any of the >> approaches) we need a way to add all these in a dashboard. Proposed >> options are at >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HDashboardMacroSyntax >> . Currently implemented solution is 1/ which has a few drawbacks: it >> defines a meta syntax for its content and this syntax doesn't allow more >> complex layouts than a number of columns. >> >> The new proposal is 4) >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HOption429Columnmacroforlayouting2Cdashboardextendscolumnmacro >> , which basically proposes to use nested column macros ( >> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/projects/xwiki-macro-column/ >> ) to do layouting and extend the section macro with a dashboard macro >> which would be used on the first level to mark that the columned content >> is a dashboard and not just regular wiki content. For more details about >> the approach see the description in the design page, as well as for the >> advantages of this proposal. >> >> my +1, I like this approach, I will try to prove the concept in the next >> days. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks, >> Anca >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
