[xwiki-devs] Integration of the WebDAV plugin in the UI
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
Asiri, does this mean that Windows-Web-Folder and MacOSX-webdav-connection are *also* expected to work just not popping up? 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
Hi Paul, On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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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 < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/
Hi Guillaume, On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]>wrote:
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 have tested xwiki-webdav on XP as well as DAVExplorer and i think the functionality you are asking is currently present (+ there are integration tests for those basic functionality). However, let's ludovic give a word about OSX.
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.
I Agree :) Thanks. - Asiri
Guillaume
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Asiri Rathnayake < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
Hi Guillaume, On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]>wrote:
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
May I know when was this ? Thanks. - Asiri
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 < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
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.
This is not an issue in the WebDAV code itself, but an issue of the Apache version we have in front of our Intranet (that's where Guillaume has tested). We are waiting for some free time from Raffaello to upgrade our Apache to fix this. We are also not operationnal on Windows XP on our intranet because we have not installed the Home Web app that Asiri has build to allow compatiblity with Windows XP WebDav redirector. Unfortunately the setup of WebDAV is constraining and as I studied there is nothing we can do to make it more simpler than what we did currently. Ludovic
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 < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Asiri,
does this mean that Windows-Web-Folder and MacOSX-webdav-connection are *also* expected to work just not popping up? 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.
I'm not sure what you exactly mean. The UI integration *is* based on Windows Web Folder and MacOSX. We are only talking about simplifying the launch and not required people to mount disks. Unfortunately we cannot guess file system links concerning mounted disks, so the only URL we can give is an HTTP url. This is what the native JS in IE and the Firefox extension can do. Run Word or OpenOffice with the right URL as a parameter. Ludovic
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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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Sounds like a good plan. I would like to hear what people would like to see in FoXwiki. It would be fun to add simple features to make XWikiers life easier using a Firefox extension Ludovic Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
I forgot to add one thing: - propose people to download the FF extension if they do not have it - allow to see the webdav URL (to allow copy pasting) Nice to have in the future: - allow to configure the mounted disk name to construct a URL linking to the mounted disk (this would allow not to have to relogin to your webdav wiki) Ludovic Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Sounds like a good plan. I would like to hear what people would like to see in FoXwiki. It would be fun to add simple features to make XWikiers life easier using a Firefox extension
Ludovic
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
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Asiri Rathnayake -
Guillaume Lerouge -
Ludovic Dubost -
Paul Libbrecht