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Edit-in-place coming to Mozdev soon
One of the primary goals of Mozdev recently has been to make using our services easier. We recognize that using CVS for everything can be quite a burden, and we've been planning on addressing this for some time. One thing we feel could help new projects get off the ground faster is to remove the burden of using CVS for managing their web site.
Our edit-in-place implementation tries to stay out of the user's way as much as possible. Once you're logged in to your project, hovering over certain regions highlights them to mark that they're editable. We're using mozile for our editing component along with a custom saving plugin to save each region independently and commit it to CVS. We also have custom commands for uploading images and adding new pages to your project.
This still needs some testing, so if you're interested in trying this out for your project, let us know. You'll need to be using the standard Mozdev theme and should be be using only static content in your web pages (any dynamic content in the pages will be removed when the changes are saved).
- By silfreed at 05/07/2009 - 18:36
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Re: Edit-in-place coming to Mozdev soon
I'm interested in trying this out for myself and to help out but would I be able to by starting a new project from scratch, or would it have to be an existing one as my CVS knowledge is non-existent?
Perhaps the best way to test it is from a new users perspective?
Ken - Ken? Who the heck is that?
Re: Edit-in-place coming to Mozdev soon
If you have an existing project we can most likely set it up if you didn't play with the templates too much. There's a single setting that needs to be set in your project to get it to work.
If you have a project idea, feel free to submit it on the "start a new project form" and we'll get it set up for you.
If you'd just like to play, we can set you up a project on our dev server; it should work the same.
Re: Edit-in-place coming to Mozdev soon
"If you'd just like to play, we can set you up a project on our dev server; it should work the same"
That would be great.
I would have replied sooner, but I didn't get notified of the new comment. I checked and my settings are correct. Perhaps it's my spam filters.
I've added this page to Update Scanner.
Re: Edit-in-place coming to Mozdev soon
This looks great. I found this to be one of the best features on flickr, and I find it very cool to see it implemented on mozdev.
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