Neeme Praks wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: burtonator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:41 AM
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > - 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.
> 
> Concerning remote portlets, i think we can generalize the concept into
> simply allowing to put a remote html page into a portlet ("dock"
> external URL). This simplifies things a lot. We also loose the power of
> having multiple views (different medias for example) on this kind of
> portlet, but for the beginning it would be good enough. Later, if we see
> a need, we can also develop the concept of remote portlet further...

... I assume you really mean let the *user* dock remote content?  I
think this would be cool.  Your above functionality can be done with
FileServerPortlet..  What I think we need is a UserFileServerPortlet
with a UI for adding the URL.

Kevin

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