[ZPT] I really need feedback on this topic... FW: On ZPT designer...

[Chris Withers]

Re-posting like this is a sure fire way to get people to ignore you ;-)

Chris - often ignored himself, apparently...

Manuel Vázquez Acosta wrote:
> Hi all,
> Yesterday I post a message and I have not received any feedback yet. Please I really need someone to tell if there's already a similar project out there.
> Am I addressing to the right mailing list?
> Regards,
> Manuel.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Vázquez Acosta 
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:02 PM
> To: 'zpt at zope.org'
> Subject: FW: On ZPT designer...
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering if there's any effort towards creating a good page design application. 
> I think of something like NVU or Dreamweaver being capable of semi-process TAL and METAL tags at least.
> Currently, we have no choice but creating a draft in html that represents what a page looks like, and then including ZPT tags in order to make that draft a useful ZPT.
> This approach might work in several scenarios, but fails especially on those where intensive use of macros and slots is done (e.g. Plone).
> I think fine integration between Zope and an external editor like NVU, might do a good job for us (Dreamweaver lacks some flexibility gained in Mozilla based products through XBL, but could help anyway). I think writing a small(?) Zope Product to interface with external editors and a XPI (or a bunch of DW Extensions) for NVU will suffice.
> I'm posting these ideas mainly because I'm new to Zope and its internals (and I'm new to Python also), so it would take me a little bit of time before getting into production; and also, I always ask if somebody else is doing something like what I'm looking for. 
> There are other concerns which deserve some attention, but they will be addressed at a proper time.
> Best regards,
> Manuel.
> 
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