Nothing ready for public consumption just yet ... though I am hoping to have it ready soon (next week or so, if my free time holds up).
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:12:05 -0700, Keith Bingman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote one of the first extensions for this, but kind of dropped it > as I was in Central America for a month and have yet to pick it up > again. > > For me at least, centralized assets are much better. I don't want to > have to hunt through each page to find a photo. The bucket idea seems > like the easiest way to insert an image. Steal from the best and all. > > This is basically how I envisioned it.. do you have anything ready to > show? > > > On Feb 24, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Nathan Wright wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:55:04 -0700, Chris Parrish >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Sounds good. I'm looking forward to playing with this. I can see it >>> being very useful (though I share John's distaste for using WYSIWYG >>> editors) for my customers. >> >> Ditto. How have you persuaded them to use something else? Mind >> altering >> drugs, perhaps? ;) Mine have always been convinced that they need >> to use >> dreamweaver to manange their hundreds of pages ... I figured that >> Radiant >> with a WYSIWYG was the lesser of two evils. >> >>> Are you willing to provide any details on the asset management >>> piece you >>> are working on? I've read about what the others are doing on and >>> none >>> of the approaches seems quite "right" for my needs. >> >> I think that John believes that assets should belong to a page >> rather than >> being more universal in nature, but I honestly think that this may >> complicate things too much for the average user. >> >> In my system all assets are available to all pages. You add those >> assets >> (be they images, pdfs, whatever) to your bucket (yes, I'm shamelessly >> ripping off Mephisto's buckets), and then you simply click on them to >> insert them into your page. >> >> The insert behavior is "smart". If you are inserting an image, it will >> insert an image tag into the page. This tag differs depending on the >> filter applied to the page ... if you have no filter applied, or if >> you >> have my WYSIWYG applied, a basic <img ...> will be inserted into >> the page; >> if you use markdown you'll get a  ... >> you get the idea. >> >> If you try to insert a PDF, mp3, etc. into the page (or something else >> that can't be directly viewed by the browser) the insert behavior will >> stuck a link into the page instead. Like above, the precise form of >> this >> link will depend on the filter that is applied to the page. >> >> In short, I think that inserting an asset into a page should be a >> simple >> procedure ... the user shouldn't have to think about the markup >> required >> to insert it. >> >> Since most assets are likely to be images, I want to make it easy >> for the >> user to resize those images to suit their needs. The URL of the image >> determines the size of the image, and the image can only be resized >> from >> the admin side of things. I'm still working out the details of how >> all of >> this will work, but I've got a basic system in place that seems to >> work >> well. It still hits the database to determine if an asset matching the >> size parameters exists ... I need to work that out yet to minimize the >> database load. >> >> Is this at all like what you're looking for? What are your ideas on >> the >> matter? >> >> -- >> Nathan Wright >> _______________________________________________ >> Radiant mailing list >> Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant -- -- Nathan Wright _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
