I have just started looking at zope for the site I
am developing. I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether it sounds like an
appropriate tool to use.
The basic idea of my site is to be a sort of
multi-user-dimension for text. Meaning, we'll have various books available in a
database, and people can log on and read a chapter or a whole book. The
innovative part is that we will track which users are reading which texts, and
let people interact with others reading the same text as them. We will also
provide some other features, including user customization of fonts and colors,
and the ability for users to write new texts to be included in the content
library. People will be able to read, write, and discuss with each other. To
enable serious literary analysis of diverse documents, we will have a number of
text-parsing tools available to readers. One other important thing to mention is
that we will have a lot of text in non-Latin character sets, including right to
left languages.
My questions are:
1) Could Zope help me keep track of who
is reading what and match people up for discussion?
2) Could Zope help me personalize the fonts and
other display settings for each user? How about letting users create their own
bookmarks within the texts?
3) Could Zope help me manage user created content
and the relations between content and its creators?
4) Could Zope handle right to left text and
non-Latin character sets?
5) What are the advantages/disadvantages to
developing this site with Zope as opposed to MySQL and PHP?
6) Could Zope help me make the same content
available to ordinary web browsers and wireless devices in different
formats?
7) Since we are going to be having discussion, we
might want to stream voice between users and also stream pre-recorded voice. Any
support for that?
8) Where can I find speed benchmark information
about Zope?
9) Where can I find virtual server and collocation
hosting for my site if I want to use zope, or do I have to administrate my own
server?
Any input about any of these questions would be
greatly appreciated. I apologize for my ignorance.
Thanks,
Aharon
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