James M Snell wrote:
+1 (obviously non-binding :-) ...). I've been going through the
exercise of implementing a new UI template for our internal blogs and
this has definitely come up as an issue. I would caution, however,
against going too far with breaking things out.
I agree that we want to choose carefully what actions get their own
template and which ones don't and that's why in the section of the
proposal where I talked about what actions to support i technically only
added 2 new actions to the ones Roller currently has, search results,
and tags index.
the rest are possible but may be more baggage than they are really
worth, so we have to decide where to draw the line, hopefully finding
the right balance between flexibility/features and simplicity/usability.
-- Allen
- James
Allen Gilliland wrote:
new 4.0 proposal up to support to individual templates by action ...
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Proposal+Individual+Templates+by+Action
Abstract:
This is a proposal to support a way to define individual or separate
template files for various weblog page actions. Actions would be things
like search results page (<weblog>/search) or tags index page
(<weblog>/tags/).
Currently Roller does all of its page rendering via a single template,
the Weblog template, and quite frankly that is just not good enough.
Blogs have many pages which will often times have fairly different
designs and Roller should support that. A great example is the search
results page which typically has a much different layout and design than
a blog homepage and yet Roller doesn't make it easy to accomplish that.
It is the goal of this proposal to make it possible for users to have
individual templates to control the page designs for various weblog
actions.
please review and comment.
-- Allen
