[Spine-develop] 1.3 Beta : Development Features: Summary

[Hendrik V. B. <hen...@gm...>]

Development Features: Summary
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Development base: 1.22
Development target: 1.3 beta

The following changes are already part of the current development tree
(others will follow). These are the ongoing features so considered to
be unstable.

* Virtual Paths
* TinyMCE integration
* Error Dialog layout
* Locked Content
* Configurable Image Paths
* Tag Hints
* Navbar Preview
* Edit Page plugin
* Keywords plugin
* MIME Type detection
* Slideshow plugin
* CGI support


Virtual Paths
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The Virtual Paths feature allows users to create a virtual subfolder
structure for content. For example, create subfolders for different
sections: pictures/rome.html, pictures/paris.html. This feature was a
requirement for including TinyMCE into the development tree. This also
allows the user to "import" images into Spine as content as use
"images/foo.jpg". This means that Spine can now operate in a complete
content handler based setup, without the need of actual, existing
files.

TinyMCE integration
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TinyMCE is a very nice web-based WYSIWYG editor that transforms your
text area into a word processor like area. Using Virtual Paths,
TinyMCE can be imported as content and linked to the content and style
admin panels.

Error Dialog layout
-------------------
Admin errors appeared at the top of the admin panel as plain text. A
style cleanup now adds a nice boxed error dialog with icon. Not a big
change but a nice one nonetheless.

Locked Content
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Small style change in style and content admin panel. If a user has
read-only access to a specific content or style, a lock icon will
appear next to the filename in the admin panel.

Configurable Image Paths
------------------------
The images location (/images by default) is now configurable by
changing the Images tag in the apache configuration. This change is a
per-config setting so each Spine site can have a different images
location. The images location is available as the <?SPINE_Images?>
tag.

Tag Hints
---------
The content and style admin panel now have a small pop-up dialog that
contains all the Spine tags that can be used in the body.

Navbar Preview
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The Navbar admin panel now has a preview of the generated.

Edit Page plugin
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This new plugin will add a "Edit Page" link to a page if a logged in
user has write permissions to the page. The plugin links directly to
the administration panel in edit mode.

Keywords plugin
---------------
This plugin shows the keyword values from the content administration.

MIME Type detection
-------------------
The Content administration panel now has a mimetype detection feature
based on the content extension. The extension/mimetype link is easily
extensible. Links between mime-type and file extension is stored in
the attributes table.

Slideshow plugin
----------------
The Slideshow plugin uses an existing navbar to create a slideshow. It
places a link to the next and previous element in tne navbar on the
page.

CGI support
-----------
Spine currently only works as a mod_perl v1 or v2 content handler.
Adding CGI support will be a major update.


-- 
Hendrik Van Belleghem
Spine - The backbone for your website - http://spine.sf.net