discuss: re:Online editing (was: One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide)
Subject:
Re: re:Online editing (was: One-page replacement for
LDP-Author-Guide)
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
2 May 2003 21:37:34 -0000
Message-Id: <1051910940.21265.122.camel@mysticchild>
I thought java applets myself when we conceived of the idea, however I
know this presents new problems too - some people don't have java.
I'm a little wary of the tree layout, simply because I don't find it
NEW-user friendly (just an opinion - keep in mind I've tech supported a
lot of people in my career that shouldn't have been even using
computers!). Maybe it just depends on how it's done. Some of the
Windows XML editors aren't bad... I'm just not willing to pay for
anything, and sick of all these darn trial versions. I've familiarized
myself with tree-views of xml documents, and I'm not a big fan of seeing
my work that way... maybe I'm just getting too set in my ways!
The advantages of the online environment are that the document creation,
reviewing and processing can be all linked together. I think some
tie-in between these would be nice.
I guess where I'm going with all of this is to see the LDP
self-efficient on the web - a place where people can go not only to read
docs, but also have tools readily available for authors, reviewers and
web administration. Everything. The whole kit and kaboodle.
Hey, I'm a dreamer!
Tab
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:56, ####@####.#### wrote:
> yea i am not sure how a form based editor will work out.
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> i think tree based editor might work. Where the whole XML is represented as
> a huge tree, and each element will be a node in the tree.
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> Again, for it to be NOT clunky, would require it to be a Active X Control,
> or Java Applet.
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> Or maybe a XForm running in Macromedia Flash Player ;)
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> In Peace,
> Saqib Ali
> http://www.seagate.com/cheetah/
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> On 02 May 2003 13:26:24 -0700 Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
> wrote:
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> > Hi Howard,
> > ...
> >
> > The "form" idea, where a user could enter the relevant document
> > information, and then proceed to fill in the blanks until the document
> > is complete, is to me the secret of success.
> > ...
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> I'm not so sure.
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> How do you intend to enter tables, lists, code examples, graphics,
> etc. - all the content for the body of the document? Will the user
> need to know some form of markup? Or will they 'drop into' having to
> use DocBook?
>
> It's very *easy* to pull together a form to assemble a skeleton document,
> with some associated header and meta-data fields (like taking
> Sample-HOWTO.xml and slamming in fields from a form the user fills out).
> It's quite another problem to provide *true* document content editing!
> So what are the plans for that? I suppose you could have clickable
> entries for each tag-type that would in turn pop up a specific form,
> and allow the user to fill-in data, but that to me is very "clunky'.
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> I'll stick with good old reliable vi ! ;-)
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