On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Shane Hathaway wrote:
It's a great idea but I've had some thoughts on this myself. I think the approach I would take is to create a ZClass. Content authors would
Oooh, I like that idea a lot. Solves lots of problems, most notably the hackery I currently do with the searching stuff: The search results come up with urls like http://www.vistasource.com/body, which ain't right, so I do a bunch of munging to make the urls right. Also sounds like work, but hey, I suppose it's about time I earn that salary... =)
fundamental changes more easily. Have you learned about property sheets yet? They are the key to success with ZClasses.
Nope, where shall I go to read the fine manual on those?
visits /home/lowres/content/index_html, they get the lowres style.
(I understand this now, modulo the other post from Jeff.) Yeah, this is the part of acquisition that I _get_, but just shy away from for some reason. I need to get over that, because this is probably one of the coolest things about acquisition.
Zope is like a collection of Legos (TM): you're given a bunch of blocks and some instructions on how to build some specific models, but encouraged to explore putting them together in new ways. Have you heard of the Lego Machine Gun? :-)
Yeah, funny you should mention it. I was just looking at the web page for it like 2 weeks ago. And I like the analogy. =) Thanks so much, I hope others on the list are profiting from this exchange as much as I am! jim -- Jim Hebert http://www.cosource.com/ jim@cosource.com The cooperative market for open source software "Well actually I was considering opening a market in flying pigs. Mostly because it would be more practical...." -- Alan Cox