Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-users] FoxWiki & "Edit attachments" feature - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

15 Apr 2010

Hi Eugen,

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Colesnicov Eugen &lt;ecolesnicov(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote:

...

 Hi developers!

 According discussion about this FoxWiki & "Edit attachments" feature at
 XWiki-Dev subforum. I want to write my opinion for developers.

 Current situation:
 - In IE this feature working good without any additional jobs (I tested
 2.2.4).
 - In FF - need to use FoxWiki extension (download manualy xpi-file, and
 edit
 max-version property).
 - In Chrome - "Edit attachments" - doesn't work.

 I have proposal about using this feature in FF. FoxWiki working, but I
 don't
 like that users MANUALY everytime should add file extention and application
 path  in FoxWiki. From other side, exists some other extentions for FF (for
 example http://openwebfolder.mozdev.org/). As I understand, this extention
 adds to FF functionality of windows WebFolder WebDAV client - same as IE.
 But now, I cannot use (or try) this extention with XWiki, because XWiki
 programming code obviously use ONLY FoxWiki at FF. As I understand, If we
 will try to use openwebfolder extention - no any special code needs for
 XWiki - programming code can be same as a IE part.

 Other collaborative suits software also use openwebfolder extention for FF
 (see for example

http://help.collab.net/index.jsp?topic=/teamforge530/action/connecttowebdav…
 ).

Openwebfolder has the following description:

"*openwebfolder* itself does *not* contain any platform-independant WebDAV
related code. It just adds hooks so that Microsoft's "Webfolder" WebDAV
client can be invoked in a similar way like in IE."

So this is a windows only solution. May be we should have some logic like:

if (IE) {
  // Use native webdav support in IE.
} else if (FF && Win32) {
  // Use openwebfolder.
} else if (FF) {
  // Use FoXWiki.
}

But first someone has to evaluate if openwebfolder + FF on Win32 is better
than FoXWiki + FF on the same. Anyway, I'm not sure if above logic can be
implemented or if it is the best approach, someone has to digg a little
deep.

Just my opinion :)

- Asiri

...

 For this reason, alternative proposal: no use any special extention for
 WebDav - use standart openwebfolder extention (this extention is better
 because not need to manualy add file extentions and application paths).
 According this - need to change XWiki programming code for WebDav using in
 Firefox.

 I am not a specialist with XWiki programming, for this reason - sorry, if I
 write something stupid ... What do you think about my variant?

 --
 Best Regards
 Eugen Colesnicov

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