Forum OpenACS Development: Response to What's on the critical path?

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Posted by Jon Griffin on

Templates

I like the templates (mostly) and would like to have all the functionality working. Mainly date_widgets don't work correctly, and wizards and some other widgets don't work. Also, the optional flag needs it opposite, (i.e. if there is no optional flag it is mandatory)

I also would like to modify the form handler (if it is even possible) to get rid of all the hard coded html and make it easier for a designer to use. Preferably by allowing EVERY page on the site to be edited from the browser.

Most designers don't want to learn to ssh into a box and fool around trying to find where in the tree the page is. This got much worse in 4.x because of the request processor. Now people have to understand file hierarchies, directory layouts, modules and etc. to modify a page, and many things like errors still have hardcoded html in the various parts. This makes it difficult to apply skins or even change parts for sub-sites.