[Spine-develop] 1.3 Beta : Development Features: Summary
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[Spine-develop] 1.3 Beta : Development Features: Summary
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From: Hendrik V. B. <hen...@gm...> - 2007-03-17 00:08:45
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Development Features: Summary ----------------------------- 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 ------------- 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 ------------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------- The Navbar admin panel now has a preview of the generated. Edit Page plugin ---------------- 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 -- Hendrik Van Belleghem Spine - The backbone for your website - http://spine.sf.net |
