16 Sep
2008
16 Sep
'08
9:49 a.m.
Hi Asiri,
You're right about the need to make the user's life easy by providing WebDAV
acess right from his browser.
However the last time I tested WebDAV integration I wasn't able to upload
files on the XWiki disk from my computer (running Mac OS X 10.5). I'm not
sure this issue has been fixed yet, but I think what Paul means is that he'd
rather have those kind of basic features working & well-tested first and
then afterwards the browser part.
So, either the remaining issues have been fixed and Paul & I simply didn't
test the latest available version or it might be good to fix them before
taclking the FF extension part.
Guillaume
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Asiri Rathnayake <
asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)activemath.org>
wrote:
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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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