Re: [Plone Mosaic Sprint Barcelona discussion] Re: Plone Mosaic Sprint Barcelona June 10 - 13

Hi Guido,

thanks for the inspiring details.

Guido Stevens wrote:
> That can only work if we have a smart page composition controller who
> does the rendering and decides which tile should render left, right,
> middle; and how large; and how the responsive reflow should work. = who

So this "smart controller" should be more than just a customizable grid
with assigned tiles? E.g. an add-on tile could request a "large centrish
slot somewhere above the body text" and controlled would find a proper
slot from the grid? Can you give an example story how would it work?

With "responsive reflow", do you mean just good and responsive HTML +
CSS, or something more magical?

> My business case is that I want to be able to provide a fully
> personalized selection and composition of tiles, based on personal and
> usage characteristics. The actual personalization logic is out of the
> scope here, but creating a rendering engine that is flexible enough to
> provide such a capability is not.

This rendering engine still sounds pretty much what p.a.blocks already
is. It doesn't generate smart layouts, but it can acquire the current
layout from context bound computed views. Yet, provides a simple
plone.resource-based layout storage with re-usable vocabulary (for
forms). It doesn't know about about portlets, but its "panel merge" can
move things around like diazo. Also, it is enabled with a marker
interface on request object ("browser layer"), so it can be enabled or
disabled per request. (And I didn't need to mention tiles yet...)
> I hope that's enough to turn your "95%" into a "100%"? ;-)

The 5% is about me to organize my work here and book the trip :)

Cheers,
Asko

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