<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@tinpixel.com">chris@tinpixel.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Adrian Rossouw wrote:<br><br>> One of the other not known things about the forms api .. (although .. i<br>> am going<br>> to refer to it by it's real name .. the view api) is that it also maps<br>> cleanly onto
<br>> xml.<br>><br>> It's a tree with properties and children.<br><br><br>> Also, you should note that every block in a page can now be accessed<br>> separately<br>> using the right xmlrpc call (if it's enabled of course), and you can
<br>> refresh certain<br>> blocks automatically, on a timer .. or assign it to an event (which<br>> could be a link<br>> added into that block, or whenever the document changes.)<br>><br>> It should also make it easier to expose this interface to flash or xul,
<br>> since it<br>> can use xmlrpc on the back end and redraw the exact forms with the exact<br>> validation you'd have on the normal drupal sites. You could even attach<br>> ajax events to certain blocks, or just make them completely flash
<br>> (think lazlo)<br><br>Adrian, you're a genius!<br><br>If we can do all this without killing ourselves with complexity, or kill our<br>performance, Drupal will completely own the content management and web<br>application space.
</blockquote><div><br>Oh, can't we die happily?<br><br>Robin <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">..chrisxj<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Robin Monks,<br>CSL Web Administrator<br><a href="mailto:robin@civicspacelabs.org">robin@civicspacelabs.org</a>