On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:48 AM, j. van den hoff <[email protected] > wrote:
> of course I would prefer having this functionality "just" provided by the > UI if possible at all. not necessarily fancy configuration but just the > switch between current layout and an "inlined date" variant would just be > great in my view. > One of the ideas we tossed around summer before last was "custom pages," which would in principal allow a user to create their own pages integrated into the UI. i experimented with those for a while but the limitations were too great for it to be useful for anything more than the most trivial stuff (purely static pages or _very_ simple TH1-scripted stuff). The major limitation here is that fossil doesn't have a 100%-available scripting option. It has _options_ for that, e.g the TCL and JSON support, but nothing which is enabled everywhere all the time. TH1 is too limited for any large scripts (e.g. it cannot tell you _where_ an error occurs, so debugging any script more than a few lines long is very painful). Anyway... the option i alluded to early would be a variant of custom pages which loads static client-provided HTML/JS/CSS, and runs on the client side. For that to be useful, though, the client would need to have either or both of TCL and/or JSON support enabled, which would reduce its overall utility. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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