On 1/20/07, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think for Exhibit it's better to insert right inside the page's
> content area rather than the side bar, but I don't know if blogging
> engines allow widgets to do that.
>
> I think any simple prototype would be enough to get other people excited
> about helping out...
You are probably right. For myself, I'm toying with the idea of
tossing out all the blog furniture, breaking down the walls and
replacing them with Exhibit (and perhaps yui-ext for layouting), to
manage everything from posts to comments to peers-in-the-field links
("blog rolls"). I still have not quite shaken the ideas into place
yet, and it might end up horribly useless or unappealing, but I find
it too interesting not to try.
Especially as I thought I'd cram in as many microformats, where
relevant, as possible. It has almost that pioneering quality it was so
long ago I felt near blog platforms these days. :-)
I think you need to pick use cases for an Exhibit blog widget before
it becomes apparent how to model and shape it. What purposes should it
have? Scrape up the occasional data you drop in posts (via
microformats, references to external json or google spreadsheets, for
instance), or take on some of the functionality of present day typical
blog widgets?
--
/ Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/
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