Re: [Gramps-devel] Gramplets for the Web?

[Ken B <ken...@gm...>]

Jason Simanek wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:36 -0500, Douglas S. Blank wrote:
>   
>>> Doug, could you give us an example of the type of information that would
>>> be displayed in the web gramplet?
>>>       
>> Oh, maybe the Pedigree Gramplet, which can go back as many generations as
>> you want. Or maybe the Surname Cloud Gramplet, or any of the non-data
>> input ones, really.
>>     
>
> I could see the Surname Cloud, but that would only be a single gramplet
> for the whole site. As for the Pedigree Gramplet, how would that add to
> the pedigree chart and ancestor tree already included on each
> individual's web page?
>   
As a user with arthritis I personally would find it more useful than having to scroll up or down the page to find a link.

Ken.

>   
>>> Much of
>>> the usefulness of the sidebar widgets is derived from their dynamic
>>> nature and ability to present contextual information related to that
>>> which is displayed in the primary column of the site.
>>>       
>> Yeah, that's why I mentioned that you'd have to pre-generate each person's
>> Gramplets/Weblets.
>>     
>
> Right, but as I asked above, what additional information did you have in
> mind and how would it relate to the large amount of information already
> output in Narrative Web?
>
>   
>> PHP? Bah :) It wouldn't be hard to convert the static HTML designs with
>> GRAMPS's Python base (with BSDDB or some other SQL backend) to create a
>> live GRAMPS site. We just need a few more abstractions in place...
>>     
>
> I only recommend PHP because it's what I know best between the two.
> Also, I would want this potential GRAMPSweb CMS to be as easy to install
> and broadly supported by popular web hosts as possible. If it were
> Python-based I wouldn't be able to run it on my current host. [just
> checked: Apparently my 1&1 Linux shared hosting DOES provide Python! So,
> I guess that's an option after all. ;) but still, PHP is easier to
> approach as a web-guy.]
>
>   
>> No offence to Phpgedview, but I think a GRAMPS web interface would be a
>> lovely thing. I'd love a Mainz live site.
>>     
>
> Yeah, PHPgedview and the others have horrible user interfaces and are
> generally ugly. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks my designs for
> GRAMPS are better than those! ;)
>
> In general though, I was a genealogical research layman two years ago
> and the GRAMPS ui was very intuitive and it's only been improved since.
> >From what I can see it would be possible to reconstruct most of the
> GRAMPS ui with HTML, CSS and a dash of JavaScript.
>
> -Jason Simanek
>
>
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