I like the idea of the URL's. I think "User Friendly URL's" would provide for a much cleaner look if anything. They may help with the analytics of things too...
I'm not sure I understand the second JIRA, what would be the uses for it? On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Cris J Holdorph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the motivation behind the 'human readable' part? Do you expect, (as > a student) I can read the URL, that at some point in the future, I'll simply > type in > > http://myportal.myuniv.edu/supercooltab/someportlet > > in my address bar, because I remember I have a "supercool" tab and I put > "some" portlet on that tab? > > Or is the motivation instead, something different? I'm not sure what human > readable URL means if it's not the above use case. > > I think the first half of the JIRA makes sense, but wouldn't describe that > as "human readable" url. The aspect of being able to control which > tab/portlet is being displayed and what the portlet window state was with > altering the URL, I think is interesting. But what part of those features > requires it to be 'human readable'. > > Also, your second half of the jira, which Mark is commenting on, about > tab/page/column doesn't seem to match up with what you described in the > first half. > > ---- Cris J H > > Mark Boyd wrote: > > > > > Eric, > > > > Recall that uportal infrastructure sees layouts as folders and channel not > tabs and columns. So if anyone ever does decide to put together a non > tab/column layout this approach (like the paging that Susan B. started > looking at a couple years ago) wouldn't make sense for these enhanced > layouts. > > > > Secondly, keep in mind that tab labels can be internationalized. (Or could > be if we ever roll the Luminis approach from the sandbox into baseline.) So > you may well have mult-byte characters in those tab names. Perhaps we need > to add a new friendly URL name to folders before such a folder (tab) is made > available via such URLs. Or it can be mandatory with the caveat that its > content must only consist of characters support by the URI spec. Ditto for > channels. > > > > Food for thought. > > > > Mark > > > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > We have a portlet project coming through the pipes here that is > > going to require some new uPortal functionality. In an attempt to do > > this "the right way" I've described both features in uPortal Jira > > issues and plan on trying to implement them in uPortal directly then > > merge the features into our local version. > > > > I'd like to get other developers feedback on that approach and on > > ideas around these features. > > > > The first is human-readable / search engine friendly URLs: > > http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2045 > > The second is a detached WindowState for portlets: > > http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2046 > > > > -Eric > > > > > > -- > > > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
