[Zope3-dev] Portlets vs Pagelets

[Jim Fulton]

I'd like to suggest a more important distinction between
portlets and pagelets.  Portlets are largely under the user's
control.  User's can choose, configure and arrange portlets for
themselves.  As a result, the system has to track portlet information
by user, as well as default portlet information.

I suggest that pagelets are components used by the page author to
construct pages.  To tie the two together, a portlet slot might be
implemented as a pagelet.

I suggest that the most important goal of a pagelet framework
is to provide a framework for page construction, including management
of shared resources and resource dependencies.

$0.2 from a non authority.

Jim

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