16 Sep
2008
16 Sep
'08
7:09 a.m.
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)activemath.org> wrote:
Asiri,
does this mean that Windows-Web-Folder and MacOSX-webdav-connection are
*also* expected to work just not popping up?
I'm not clear about what you meant by "just not popping up", but let me
elaborate a bit.
The current xwiki-webdav implementation already works with
windows-web-folders and mac-osx-webdav-connection. But the problem with
these is that the user needs to leave the browser and perform some setup if
he wishes to work on the files directly. And moreover, webfolders does not
provide the complete filesystem abstraction like webdav redirector on xp,
which requires further complicated setup ( net use * "
http://mydavserver/xwiki/webdav" ... ).
The idea is to prevent the user from having to leave the browser and thus
make his life easy. I mean think about a possible extension, we can let the
users edit their wiki pages (not just attachments) using his favorite word
processor! Once he saves the document it will be saved into the server (via
webdav) and the results will be visible immediately.
I hope i have answered your question correctly. Please let me know if you
have further comments :)
Thanks.
- Asiri
I understand the usage of an extension such as foxwiki
only in order to
make this easy but honestly I find copy-and-paste of the URL, adding
appropriate credientals, is the thing that should and must work before any
other.
paul
Le 15-sept.-08 à 20:47, Asiri Rathnayake a écrit :
Hi Devs,
From today onwards I'll be working on integrating the xwiki-webdav plugin
in
the xwiki ui. And in the process i will resurrect the foxwiki firefox
extension as well.
By integrating xwiki-webdav on the xwiki ui, we mean to provide the users
the ability to open / edit / save various types of attachments with their
favourite editor.
For an example, we'll provide a "open with word" link next to a
".doc"
attachment in the attachments section of the UI. When the user clicks on
this link it will fire up word and let the user edit the content and save
it
back as he/she wishes.
Currently this functionality is available natively on IE (phew) and there
isn't much to be done on that. But for this to work on firefox we're going
to have to resurrect the foxwiki extension. So the tentative workplan
would
be as bellow:
* Make foxwiki work with firefox 3 - (Estimated : 2 days - Already started
working on this)
* Add the functionality to load the corresponding application (to edit the
attachment) via foxwiki - (Estimated : 3 days ?)
* Provide a common javascript API (javascript.vm ?) that can be used to
launch an application from pages - (Estimated : ?)
* Modify attachments.vm to automatically include the links for editing
attachments.
These are the goals I currently have in my mind and i'm still bit shaky
about some topics myself. If any of you have sugesstions / comments /
thoughts please let me know.
Thanks.
- Asiri
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