Probably coming in a little late on the discussion here as the page seems to have grown massively this morning and the topic diversified somewhat...
Just a quick message wanting to offer a hand with the development of the page_attachment extension, I like the idea of having the attachments all listed below the page parts and the ability to contain them within one page. I know this is possible with paperclipped but I always find myself clicking between the assets tab, uploading then dumping things in the bucket and back to the page to insert them, force of habit and not the correct way to use it I'm sure. One thing I'm not sure about with page attachment is this re-ordering functionality - useless unless there is the ability to categorise files into folders such as 'Monthly Financial Review PDFs' and pull these out with radius tags, somethings I'm glad to help with. Also don't see the point in displaying thumbnails, a simple hover on the title could reveal them to save the row height taking up so much space and cluttering the page. Ultimately I'd see an extension like this supporting ajax upload to retain page state and the ability to drag/ drop the attachment into the page part (like someone mentioned above and asset bucket currently). Not a fan of drag n drop btw so a nice CtC (copy-to-clipboard) radius tag button would be a gem. Let me know what I can do to help! Couple of other points I've read over and had some experience with is the SnS extension, all good in practice but in production the stylesheets are loaded from the db and ultimately slowing the site down no? I appreciate it can be a good thing whilst developing but from experience I tend to slice my psd's and build xhtml/css layouts before even thinking about implementing any kind of cms or data-driven backend. Once the main layout has been built then we can ascertain which content regions will be editable and allow page specific styles (through page parts) applied at population time - this is where the page attachment/asset manager radius tags come in real handy. Just saw the release of the sns page hooks today - had a discussion with Anton Aylward regarding this as it's something I was after/looking to create. Haven't tried it yet and definitely don't plan on moving my flat css files from the stylesheets folder anytime soon but for those of you using it an export file option would be good. The only onus on the user then is not to delete image assets after a switch to production mode. radiant-core and radiant-more idea is a great one and John Long you've hit the nail there with your previous post. Today I intstalled 0.9, it's great and I'm loving the look and feel so far. I attempted to install the mailer/database_mailer plugins but these weren't compatible it seemed so I've fixed them if anyone's interested, not sure who I tell or what I do to give something back to the community?! Good night, keep up the great work & sorry for the unintentionally long post! Cheers Rich
