On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:28 -0500, David Huynh wrote: > Perhaps with your expertise on PHP and Ruby, and particularly blog > engines like Wordpress, you could help us consider how such changes > to > Exhibit might make it easier to write blog widgets for Exhibit. For > example, once Exhibit's UI is broken off into smaller pieces, can > each > piece be coded into a widget and then a blog author can drag and drop > them into some layout template in a WYSIWYG fashion?...
A different Derek here from the one you were writing to, but nowadays with javascript libraries like Scriptalicious, this kind of thing should be pretty easy to implement. If you look at the side blocks on the site I pointed you to this morning (e.g. http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za) those are automatically available for adding to CMS and blogs by dragging from a source onto a destination. I don't know how Word press handles this sort of thing, it would be a few minutes work to implement in Chisimba if the tools are integrated. If you create a module to hold the blocks (an example is blockalicious in Chisimba, but any module can register blocks), then you can register them with block: widgetName in the config file, and they would become available to other modules to use. It could be quite exciting to try to incorporate these things into Chisimba. I like the idea of what you are trying to achieve. Maybe we can get an intern or two working on how to achive it in Chisimba once we have got version 1 out the door in a few weeks. Cheers The Other Derek
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