Re: [OSCOM] Ajax and CMS

On 02.05.2005, at 10:42, Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> Howdy all.  This is primarily an email to the developers of the 
> various OSCOM CMS projects, but if others have a strong opinion, chime 
> in.
>
> Most of us have read about Ajax:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
>
> First, do any of you plan to add Ajax capabilities in your CMS 
> products during the next product cycle?

Already in there, although it wasn't called AJAX when we did ;-)
We use it for our tree (as others do with their variants). JS: drag & 
drop and column width changes etc.

> Second, I think the Rails approach seems to center on having the 
> server provide an abstraction layer so that the JavaScript stuff is 
> auto-generated and injected into the page.  Presumably the idea is 
> that web application developers should be shielded from browser 
> technologies.
>
> Thus a second question: how many of you view the browser side (JS, 
> CSS, etc.) as fundamental skills for development in your project?  Are 
> most of you (the ones creating CMS products) skilled at these 
> technologies?

For us its essential, yes, in the sense that we want to provide an 
outstandingly usable GUI.


Regards
Boris Kraft
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