[Zope-Moz] PropertyView - The story so far

[Martijn Pieters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shalabh Chaturvedi [mailto:shalabh@pspl.co.in]
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't made a lot of progress here mainly because this 
> endeavour is tougher
> than I expected (and I haven't spent a lot of time on it either ;-)
> 
> Issues have come up in both RDF generation and UI because 
> there are all these
> different kinds of properties : string, boolean, tokens, 
> selections etc, each
> having with its own data structure and possible UI widget. 
> This makes it
> possible to represent the properties in various ways in the 
> RDF as well as the
> UI. After considering (and at times half-way implementing) the various
> possibilities, I decided to do a very basic thing that at least works.
> 
> What it's turning out to look like (and I don't seem to like 
> the way its going)
> can be seen here:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/shalabh/Mozilla/propview.gif
> (Please ignore the top three buttons - they are there for 
> debugging purposes
> only)
> 
> Myself, I haven't really used Zope as such for any real site. 
> Fellow zopistas
> who have been using Zope would probably have a good idea of 
> what they want for
> a useful PropertyView. So, I would greatly appreciate any 
> comments,suggestions
> or ideas you may have.


Looks great to me! I sorta pictured the 'new property' thing more as a
menu item, or a bunch of icons. That way you can present a property type
specific widget for the property.

Did you use XBL at all in this? The reason I ask is, right now we are
experimenting with Mozilla, see what is possible with the technology.
XBL is something we might want to use.

After this initial exploration phase, we'll go into a more formal
development process, where we'll capture requirements, doodle in UML,
etc. It is not that important if you don't get the property interface
right the first time, more that we all learn what Mozilla is capable of.

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Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer 
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