Fw: [Typo3-dev] Project proposal: TypoG

[eimars]

First let me start by stating that I'm not a programmer but I've managed to 
learn typo3 with the help of all the online documentation and by asking 
questions on mailing list. Typo3 has amazing potential as a development 
platform but as a community we need to think in a progressive and forward 
looking manner. This idea for an offline editing tool really deserves allot 
of community attention not because it is the most pressing need from a 
developer point of view but because it would be of amazing benefit to the 
end user. Anything that will make it easy for someone to use a tool is good. 
I followed the discussion and hear allot of buzz words passing around most 
of it over my head. :-) In my humble opinion what we need it a tool similar 
to Macromedia's Contribute 
http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/productinfo/features/brz_tour/. 
But instead of editing static html pages we will be editing database 
records. A great starting point for this I think is the very useful but not 
fully developed FE editing. If we can take this feature an put it on the 
desktop I think it would be very useful. All you will be editing is a page 
or single content item. It should work like this.
- you connect to t3 using you BE username and password.
- you get a pagetree based on your user permissions.
- you select page which will display page content.
- select content item to edit.
- by selecting content item you lock that record not allowing anyone else to 
modify it until you republish it.
- the only thing that is downloaded is the record you are working on 
including all media that makeup that page/record.
- after editing you just republish the record inserting db content in the 
right tables and media files in the right folders.

This might event be possible by simply building an extention for firefox 
which contain a rich text editor and local storage and ftp client. there is 
already and ftp client for firefox so it would be more of a integration 
thing. After all you are just taking the content and storing is locally 
temporarily and then resubmitting it.

As I said I'm not a programmer so I could be over simplifing a much more 
complex issue.

eimars