Just wanted to add that I'm going to switch from Paperclipped to PageAttachments. Nice work and thanks!!
Joe On Jun 30, 2:42 pm, Rich <richard.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
