[Zope3-dev] [DRAFT] local portlets and perspectives

[Jim Fulton]

Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>basically if the "slot" that you're thinking about contains portlets
>>>then it's a sort of slot not a sort of portlet.
>>
>>
>>Cool. So we can define new slot-like things (for example,
>>for JSR 168-style slots) and use your slots or not, as we wish.
>>
>>In particular, we can use CPS skins without being forced to
>>install triad registries unless we want to use your slots.
>>
> 
> 
> In that case it is possible to plug in other relation store backends
> (e.g RDF) that do not support genuine triadic predicates, which means
> that only "local folder" types of slots will be available, but some
> relation storage is required for the dyadic relations between elements
> and styles, widgets... because the relations between the elements are
> not stored on the elements themselves.

Sigh.  Is this documented anywhere?

> 
>>>>- Use of the term "portlet" here leads to confusion with JSR 168
>>>> portlets, which are different.   I would prefer to see a different
>>>> term used for what CPS calls portlets. Absent that, we'll need to
>>>> find some modifiers to disambiguate.
>>>>
>>>>Jim
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>yes, any term, "boxes" are not OK, since they refer to the portlet's
>>>display (view) with the frame and the decorations but any term that is
>>>understood by users / developers is ok.
>>
>>
>>Cool. "Pagelets"?
>>
>>Jim
>>
> 
> yes, I re-read
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2004-December/012852.html and
> while going through the different definitions I saw that not two
> implementations are done in the same way, which is fine.
> 
> The important aspect is that "portlets" or  "pagelets" as they are
> implemented in cpsskins separate model and view.
> They implement the "data model" part only,  not the view itself, which
> is done later by widget, layout and style filters inside the rendering
> engine.

I'd like to understand how this works.

Jim
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