Please. Hold on for a second. (was Re: [development] proposal fortheming nodes)

[Robin Monks]

On 12/15/05, Chris Johnson <chris at tinpixel.com> wrote:
>
> Adrian Rossouw wrote:
>
> > One of the other not known things about the forms api .. (although ..  i
> > am going
> > to refer to it by it's real name .. the view api) is that it also  maps
> > cleanly onto
> > xml.
> >
> > It's a tree with properties and children.
>
>
> > Also, you should note that every block in a page can now be accessed
> > separately
> > using the right xmlrpc call (if it's enabled of course), and you can
> > refresh certain
> > blocks automatically, on a timer .. or assign it to an event (which
> > could be a link
> > added into that block, or whenever the document changes.)
> >
> > It should also make it easier to expose this interface to flash or  xul,
> > since it
> > can use xmlrpc on the back end and redraw the exact forms with the exact
> > validation you'd have on the normal drupal sites. You could even attach
> > ajax events to certain blocks, or just make them completely flash
> > (think lazlo)
>
> Adrian,  you're a genius!
>
> If we can do all this without killing ourselves with complexity, or kill
> our
> performance, Drupal will completely own the content management and web
> application space.


Oh, can't we die happily?

Robin

..chrisxj
>
>


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Robin Monks,
CSL Web Administrator
robin at civicspacelabs.org
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