Hello Perhaps this message is off-Zope topic perhaps not. I am looking at an application area and wondering about the direction Digital Creations and zope are taking and whether they fit the idea... I confess I don't understand this WebDav stuff yet. But reading about it has got me dreaming again on a favorite theme: choreography and temporal-spatial indexing of networked information Comments about WebDav enabled browsers, plus recent announcement MS and Digital Creations.Zope getting stronger in sync make me wonder what they are capable of, suitable for. Is it possible for make a drg'n'drop page in Zope which would allow for fast and efficient building of web pages> For example where there are many links and lists. The immediate pragmatic application is the endless need to compile pages of web-related research with href links and build this quickly among a group of people over the web. I often end after a session up with 20+ good web pages open for some given area of research topic. Typically I add these to 'favorites' and do some fast cut'n'paste into emails to send to colleagues. If I get unlucky the whole system crashed before I have the time or energy to organize it nicely in to a web page or print out etc. What I want to do is drag'n'drop from the already open pages onto a Zope page and then the following actions will automatically occur: 1. Title and href link will be added 2. any selected text on the page will be copied as well under href link 3. An email will be sent alerting users 'subscribed' to this page of new links and/or update notice 4. The newly added links can be highlighted automatically or identified with some icon or text attribute and remain like this until more are added 5. Users can add to the links and their user_id will be tagged and timestamped next to it 6. Statistics can be gathered which allow to review which links have been accessed [through this site of course] by whom and how often etc. ie for group learning or research it is easy to determine use, interest etc. 7. Finally I wan to record and playback a 'research thread' so that I can visit a set of pages in a certain order, perhaps add some comments and then store or send this thread to others so that when they play it back in effect they can be guided through my web journey. Basic 'WEBCR' navbar controls should allow pause rewind, annotate, and branch etc. This can then be linked to systems such a Conversa [http://www.conversa.com] to allow a smooth bridge between research and training. Say on an intranet, or some course context, students, trainees could play through rapidly prepared web-based materials. But instead of requiring very intensive pre-paration of materials one could offer fast, affordable and dynamic site building which uses the existing and changing web resource to best effect. SMIL protocol might be one way to handle annotations and timing and could link in nicely because of Python implementations. But even without this a simple timing mechanisms could be built in Zope using Python External Methods. Checking for cached pages would be useful to allow more reliable service. XML and cataloguing tools could be of great service. Perhaps WebDav has nothing to do with it.. if so please enlighten me.. The basic problem I am tackling is that if I want to explain and refer to a load of interesting stuff I have found on the web, I can often best do it by sitting someone down next to me and take them for a 'guided tour'. Failing that I can send them an email with URLs and handy comments, but immediately they lose the rhythm and sense of priority. Group sessions are even harder. And I have no way of knowing how far the y got or whether they jumped off or got lost or what. And even with the best of intentions, it is hard for them to relay replay for me what they did, where they went and saw.. Serendipity is very valuable in web surfing, but so too are reliably shared experiences. It is this last which I am concerned about now. As more and more resources, help files, training, docs etc are HTML or XML based, I believe the need will grow to create a navigable web-tree which can be stored, recorded, replayed, etc. Your comments welcome - Jason ------------------------------------------------- Jason Cunliffe <jasonic@nomadicsltd.com> NOMADICS.STUDIO(Design Director) Geo-Digital Arts and Technology Le Vieux Moulin, Route de Mons 83440 SEILLANS, FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)4 94.76.98.72 Fax: +33 (0)4 94.76.97.77