On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Ate Douma <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/07/2012 06:38 PM, Chris Geer wrote: > >> I'm looking for some advice on high level site navigation using a portal. >> In traditional web apps it's easy to navigate between pages because each >> page has a unique URL. It's a little trickier in a portal environment. Has >> anyone solved the problem of being in Canvas view of one gadget and >> needing >> to switch to canvas view in a different gadget on a click? It could be >> done >> with pubsub but that only works if the users is guaranteed to have all the >> right gadgets one their screen at the right time. Are there any other >> creative solutions? >> >> Need something like requestNavigateTo that takes a gadget name and view. >> > > Hi Chris, > > I think this is an important issue and needed feature for Rave. > However, there are many ways to skin this cat as well as many different > cats... > > I'd love to see a (community) standard emerge which addresses > cross-app/cross-view/cross-**page/cross-site/cross-device navigation and > coordination needs but I wouldn't hold my breath on it :) > > I expect this is something Rave too will have to provide its own (custom) > solution for. Just like about every other 'portal' has. > > I would start with determining which cross-page/cross-app navigation > use-cases we need to support and then take it from there. Typically that > will quickly drive the scope and requirements. >
As a start I put something on the Wiki. We can discuss from there. http://wiki.apache.org/rave/ArchitectureTopics/Navigation/ClientNavigation > > Ate > > >> Chris >> >> >
