[Zope3-dev] Re: PageDesign as skinning system

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/xdocs/images/screenshot.gif

XDocs will be in the hands of most MS Office users in 2003. No points for guessing whose
CMS and portal technology it will be seamlessly integrated with. But as it isn't
browser-based and isn't Free software, there's still opportunity to one-up them.

> 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.
>
> Shane