With +1's on this from Andreas and Ariel, I will go ahead and apply 
similar changes to the "fullscreen" apps, split "ux" off into a separate 
include, and remove usage of iframes for internal embedded maps.  I'll 
notify this list when this is done.

--
David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

On 06/25/2010 09:50 AM, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks David for looking into this!
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 00:27 , David Winslow wrote:
>
>    
>> Here's what I was thinking for an interim implementation of more
>> fine-grained JS includes:
>> http://github.com/dwins/geonode/commit/47f43fa54b87af8e980ec4005afd3023dce545b1
>>
>> btw, if you want to play with this locally, do the following:
>> git remote add dwins git://github.com/dwins/geonode.git -f
>> # add 'dwins' as an alias for my github fork. the '-f' means "go ahead
>> and fetch from that repo now"
>> git checkout dwins/fewer-includes -b fewer-includes --track
>> # create a local branch (checkout -b) that you can work on that tracks
>> my github repo (eg, uses it for pull and merge)
>>      
> Works great, but I have yet to figure out how to switch back to the main 
> branch, and how to do merge in case one branch misses recent changes of the 
> other.
>
>    
>> There are two tricks going on here that I just didn't know about when we
>> wrote the current include system:
>>
>> * {{ block.super }} renders the contents of the block that is being
>> overridden in a {% block foo %} section
>> * {% include "path" %} renders another template inline
>>
>> So now we have four templates that do "something" for including ExtJS,
>> OpenLayers, GeoExt, and gxp + geonode's custom stuff, and can
>> selectively include whichever ones are needed in a page.
>>      
> This makes the whole template story much clearer!
>
>    
>> Playing with this exposed a couple of problems: lang.js doesn't
>> gracefully degrade when GeoExplorer is not in scope,
>>      
> Good point. I have fixed this on trunk for all namespaces. Checking for 
> GeoExplorer will fail, we have to check for window.GeoExplorer instead.
>
>    
>> and a number of our
>> other-wise non-spatial components are dependent upon GeoExt for similar
>> reasons.  An example is the AME file upload dialog.
>>      
> I think there should also be a template for ux. Right now the gxp template 
> loads gxp and ux resources. In the case of AME upload, only ux is required, 
> but not gxp.
>
>    
>> Anyway, just wanted to get some opinions before digging further on it.
>>      
> My opinion? dwins++, and this is definitely the way to go.
>
> Thanks!
> Andreas.
>
>    
>> --
>> David Winslow
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>
>>      
>>> Actually it's somewhat complicated to do and still support switching
>>> between minified and not.  Ariel has some ideas for improving the
>>> situation (based on a Django extension:
>>> http://code.google.com/p/django-compress/) but I think some discussion
>>> is in order.  In the meantime, I'll take a stab at just breaking things
>>> up a bit more with our current setup.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I think these two things are easy to fix for the more Django savvy team 
>>>> members. If you feel like wanting to take this on and have questions, 
>>>> please don't hesitate to contact me.
>>>>
>>>> -Andreas.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://bit.ly/aov6xp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>
>>      
>    

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