Paul Bolger wrote:
Having had a chance to experiment a bit with the dispatcher I keep
finding that the existing contracts are too Forrest, or Apache,
specific - it's no coincidence that most 'Forrest Powered' sites look
a little bit like the Forrest site.
Very true.
I'd like to propose (and in plain
English this means I'd like to do it, but don't have the technical
ability to pull it off on my own...) a set of contracts to overcome
this.
It's easy to do, we'll help if you ask direct questions. FOr more
general stuff the archives and docs are your friends.
New navigation contracts would be a good start: nav-main and
nav-section are very much based on the original Forrest site (and
nav-section relies on Javascript, a big problem for me) - a set of
contracts to produce very plain lists of links according to various
criteria would be very useful.
[OT} the nav-section contract no longer depends on javascript. You can
turn off the javascript stuff with a property, see the usage example in
the contract.
I think the appropriate time to do this would be immediately after the
official dispatcher release. Anyone interested in collaborating?
Timing - no time like the present.
I'm interesting in collaborating by advising. I don't need any new
contracts right now, but if you define what you want to do and ask a
direct question about how to do it then I will do my best to answer. As
will others.
Ross
