[Zope3-dev] Re: Brainstorming page architecture, pagelets, portlets, etc.

[Tonico Strasser]

Jim Fulton schrieb:
> Tonico Strasser wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/PageArchitecture
>>
>> * Portal-page design
>>
>> Just a comment on the term "portal". Most Web sites are not portals. 
>> The CMF does prefix its tools with 'portal_' where 'site_' would be 
>> better IMHO. I'm not sure if portal functionality is worth the 
>> complexity it might add to the framework.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=define:portal
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal
> 
> 
> Well, one of the definitions abobe includes a portal
> into an intranet.  Many Zope sites provide that role.
> They act as portals into some community.
> 
> I'm open to using a different term.  I'd hate to use a term
> like "page that contains portlets". :)

I'm not against using the term portal and portlets in the context of a 
portal. I wanted to point out that people often use portal while they 
mean site.

Tonico