Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] More phpWS and OOP

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 8 Aug 2004, at 21:28, Eloi George wrote:
>
> Personally, I think our collective coding time would be better spent 
> on quite a few other core class ideas than a universal section class.  
> There are only a very few possible uses for the page/section paradigm, 
> and I'm constantly looking for an easy-to-use, 
> non-javascript-intensive way to get away from it and still retain the 
> layout flexibility.
>

Since the sections are mostly a way to manage and layout images 
alongside text rather than to divide text into sections, the problem is 
really to solve an easy way for newbies to insert and manage images 
without knowing html.

Maybe that is actually best served by a wysiwyg tool like 
htmlarea/hypertextarea as it looks like Word rather than them having to 
work out templates and sections. The only real (ignoring weird things 
like PDAs and phones) problem area is Mac users on MacIE and Safari as 
there isn't a solution for them. Then again, that's a small bunch to 
annoy and they can always use Firefox instead. Safari v1.2.3 has just 
been released and I could have sworn Hyatt was saying it'd have 
contentEditable in that version. I'll have to find out although Apple 
take a while to actually release changelogs. MacIE is a dead product 
anyway.

Personally, I end up ftping my images up and typing in the html myself 
and not using sections a lot of the time. Maybe there should be an 
'advanced' interface which just simply had a method of uploading images 
and a simple 'click on the thumbnail' interface that inserted the html 
at the cursor. A Preview button is handy also that would preview the 
page in a separate window so you could see your layout whilst editing.

Then you just need Page breaks and TOCs. In 0.8x I just added a bit of 
code that looked for [PAGE BREAK] in the content. Maybe something 
similar.


Shaun
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk