[Zope3-dev] Re: PageDesign as skinning system

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:28:46 +0100


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> The idea is evolving.  The original idea was to make a UI for placing
> elements on a page.  But it is becoming:
> 
> - Composite content.  Make an article then drag some images into it.
> 
> - A browser-oriented drag and drop tool.  You can re-use the Javascript
> for most places you would want drag and drop capability, such as putting
> items in a list or restructuring a tree.
> 
> - Very high level templating.  This is the most interesting part for me.
> Programmers write code, designers make page templates, and with page
> designs, site designers could choose how to apply those templates.  I
> think we might want an XML serialization of page designs to help solidify
> this idea.

This looks pretty cool :-)

Is the JavaScript cross-browser compatible?

Is this going to be a Zoep 2 or Zope 3 effort?

cheers,

Chris