Heavenly ideals (RE: TTW Mass Importing was (RE: [Zope] Help on mass import of images))

Trevor Toenjes zope@toenjes.com
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:55:21 -0500


So does anyone know of a solution for TTW ftp?
anyone?  Bueller?

I agree that this cannot be a proprietary solution.
If IE is the only one to support it, I could force that as a requirement,
but
"NO" downloading of additional software should be required.
-Trevor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Browning [mailto:paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:24 AM
> To: zope
> Cc: Trevor Toenjes
> Subject: Heavenly ideals (RE: TTW Mass Importing was (RE: [Zope] Help on
> mass import of images))
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> --On 06 December 2001 09:54 -0500 Trevor Toenjes <zope@toenjes.com> wrote:
>
> >    Drag and Drop TTW would be "Heavenly" Ideal.
>
> Drag & Drop TTW file transfer _and_ WYSIWYG editing are the
> heavenly ideals from a usability perspective IHMO.
>
> But it seems that the devil has all the best tunes in this
> department - WebFolders and DHTML in IE.
>
> Things like edit-on Pro (http://www.realobjects.de/) offer
> a cross-platform solution to TTW WYSIWYG editing using
> Java - anyone know of similar approaches to file transfer
> (via the browser)?
>
> My requirement is that the end-user must not knowingly
> install new software (WebDrive is nice but too complicated
> for many users and is of course Windoze only). As in the
> case of edit-on Pro the software doesn't have to be no
> purchase cost - just good value.
>
> Paul
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