Julian Coombes wrote:
>
> Here's something I thought others on the list might find interesting. It's the
> Microsoft Digital dashboard, which is basically JetSpeed using Microsoft
> Proprietary Technologies, and delivered via the Outlook 2000 Mail Client.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/solutions/km/DDdemo.htm
Cool. Just took a look at it.
Just some things that they have that we don't:
- ability to graph data sets. They have the ability to take multiple
points of data (probably using Excel and a pivot table or something) and
building a graph. We should do something like this with SVG and maybe
stock quotes when we can get the data.
- They have project management... (Sandy... hint hint :)
- They are ahead of us on their layout. BTW if anyone can get some
JavaScript that works with drag and drop like this on Netscape and IE
you can have my first born child:
http://www.microsoft.com/solutions/km/dd_2.gif
- They have a virtual workspace.
- These are just some ideas I got when I was looking at this:
- we should have the ability to "undock" a Portlet from
the main page and have it floating from the browser.
- we should include the ability to "dock" external URLs
within Jetspeed. Neeme talked about this with a remote
Portlet but I am not sure they are exactly the same.
We should also exclude any <script> tags.
- We need to have more support for browser specific issues.
The mozilla sidebar and the ability to dock ActiveX controls
as Portlets. Under windows at least this could mean looking
at the registry. The data is there we would just need our
own ActiveX control to introspect it.
Their term for a Portlet is a "Web Part".
That was a quick review. I can't install the thing because I don't use
Windows. If anyone wants to install it and give feedback I would be
+1024. Competitive analysis is very important....
BTW. I created a doc in ./docs/BLUESKY which details this and other
issues. Hopefully I will get some time to clean it up and add other
issues.
Kevin
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