On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 01:59 am, Marc Lindahl wrote:
On Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
Yup. The stupid thing is that the Mac had this problem solved in 1984, with type/creator file metadata *sigh*.
What's even more stupid is that, though they have this in OSX as well, Goliath on OSX doesn't use it properly, and/or the mac doesn't use it properly, and even worse there's no way (I can find...) to set up the built-in webdav's type translation.
I think what this thread showed (sorry I got to it a bit late) is that Zope long ago outgrew its server-side web-interface life and that if somebody were to bridge the quality-of-interface gap between the excellent cgi server etc inside Zope and the rather terrible user interface (only terrible because you instinctively want to be able to drag and drop while preserving object metadata, or right-click to edit properties, and you don't want to have to edit scripts through a web browser's non-syntax-coloured <textarea>s) If we also got a tight integration between local and server metadata, so we could upload files intelligently into new Zope objects without using a web form, then we'd win again. Personally, I don't really want to see the join between Zope and my desktop unless I choose to :-) Forgive me if I've missed any existing software that does these things and tell me where I can get it! Ben