[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: The browser:page compromise

[Tonico Strasser]

dev at projekt01.ch schrieb:
>> The name "browser" for a namespace sux IMHO ;)
> 
> The idea of a namspace called browser is the following:
> 
> We use the namespace browser for *presentations* (the earlier 
> name for pages) which depends on the IBrowserRequest.
> This is also reflected in the package structure like:
> 
> package
>   browser
> 
> For other request types like FTPRequest, XMLRPC or JSON 
> etc we use:
> 
> package
>   ftp
>   xmlrpc
>   json
> 
> Perhaps this is to technical and will confuse people which don't
> know the base concepts of request type interfaces. But since no
> tehchnical peple have no chance to develope with z3 I think
> this naming is OK.

At some point it will be necessary to make the framework understandable 
for "normal" UI designers or we'll stick with ugly user interfaces 
forever :)

>> How is a browser defined in Zope 3 and how are these names 
>> related to it?

[...]

> All of this directive are based on the IBrowserRequest.
> Other requests like FTPRequest don't have a menu layer etc.

How is a BrowserRequest different from a HTTPRequest?

Tonico