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A widget gallery?
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A random idea to make life easier for new developers: how about a "widget gallery?"
An early-morning thought. It seems like the library of clever UI fields and widgets for Plone is expanding pretty quickly these days. It might be helpful for less-experienced developers trying to design user-friendly Archteypes if they could refer to a graphical "quick guide" to the different widgets.
Unfortunately I lack the skills to create such a guide, so I figured I'd throw the idea out there into the lazy web.
This is really excellent!
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Jon Stahl
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December 07, 2005 - 11:18
Anton -- This is a great effort! Thanks for taking the time to start putting this together.
I wonder if it would make sense to bundle some version of this into the core Plone distribution docs, if you clearly noted which widgets were "default/core" widgets and which ones were third-party (with their download URLs).
I also think this doc should be standalone on the Plone documentation site, preferably in HTML format (in addition, maybe, to PDF). To me, this feels most like a "reference manual" with one widget per page.
I wonder if it would make sense to bundle some version of this into the core Plone distribution docs, if you clearly noted which widgets were "default/core" widgets and which ones were third-party (with their download URLs).
I also think this doc should be standalone on the Plone documentation site, preferably in HTML format (in addition, maybe, to PDF). To me, this feels most like a "reference manual" with one widget per page.
Perhaps something like this
Right. I've spend a couple of evenings during the last month playing when a lot of the amazing widgets. Some of them are screenshotted in this first draft document:
http://stonor.headnet.dk/tmp/widgetgallery.pdf