[Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread Charles Y. Choi
IMHO, much of what makes the ZMI difficult to use is due to limitations of the textarea widget in a web browser (no syntax highlighting, no indentation support, etc.) So what if there was a way to get JavaScript to take the contents of a textarea widget, save that to a temporary file and th

[Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-08 Thread Charles Y. Choi
>What is wrong with editing the files trough FTP / WebDAV? I've mounted >a complete zopedatabase on a directory, and you can edit all files with >your favorite editor. Why wanting such editing posibilities in a easy >to use , in everybrowser working interface like the ZMI? In one word: Types

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZMI / JavaScript brainstorm

2002-04-09 Thread Charles Y. Choi
Chris Withers wrote: >"Charles Y. Choi" wrote: > >>With ZMI, you can create different methods/objects and then edit them. >>The problem is that pretty much every other editor out there doesn't >>know a whit about the types of objects/methods they are