Martin Aspeli wrote: >> I take your point. In response to your "why should a (weblog entry) >> object 'know' what its display url is?", I'd say "because people expect >> it to". That is, 'absolute_url' is the recognised way of retrieving an >> object's url. In essence, my question to you might be "why should a >> developer have to use a special API to get the appropriate url of an >> object when there is a perfectly good, and widely-known, zope API method >> already?". > > Please. Do *not* try to re-define the meaning of absolute_url. It has a > very specific purpose and meaning, and changing it would likely cause > (a) confusion and (b) subtle breakage. I know it sounds "neat" that the > pseuo-url is returned from "the" URL function, but it's not a good idea. > Leave it alone. Please.
Ok, ok, I give in :). The view approach does indeed seem to make more sense. Now, if only I could figure out the security error that manifests itself in plone.portlets, Quills 1.6 would be good to go in the very near future... Tim _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
