[TYPO3-hci] Innovation?

[Andreas Balzer]

Andreas Förthner schrieb:
> Hi Kasper, hi list,
> 
> I know I might be a bit late with my suggestion, but I think it is 
> really an innovation so it should be the right point to tell you about...
> 
> First I want to introduce myself a little bit. My name is Andreas and 
> I'm studying computer science in Erlangen/Germany. Perhaps some people 
> know me from the other mailing lists or TYCON3 last year where I had the 
> possibility to participate as a "helping hand".
> 
> Why I tell you about that is also because the idea for my topic came 
> from a speech by Karsten at TYCON3. It's all about WebDAV. I think 
> WebDAV would be one really great usability advancement. With 
> filehandling in the first run. Of course it could be extended to handle 
> content, versioning and whatever too, but the first thing would be to 
> connect it with the fileadmin/DAM to handle easily the upload and 
> categorizing of files in the BE. This is in my opinion something that's 
> really anoying if you want to upload many files and don't have an ftp 
> account, or even if you have one, normaly the provider has to do some 
> tricky configuration to bring the ftp und php rights together. That is 
> something not given on every server. WebDAV should/will work everywhere.
> 
> As this are not all my ideas but mostly from Karsten, just read his 
> script on the TYCON3 page, there is a very detailed description of what 
> WebDAV is and how it could be integrated in TYPO3.
> 
> So, now I'm not alone with this for the moment. My collegue (also 
> student and perhaps known from the other mailinglists) Clemens, will be 
> with me on the train and we already got a php webDAV server running in a 
> test environment. So what we thought to do was: Implement a basic WebDAV 
> library that could be used by every extension to handle file-uploads. Of 
> course the core will need some changes to get this run in the fileadmin 
> and element Browser.
> 
> I know this feature was planned for version 5.0 but the basics would be 
> very nice to see earlier, as they are really usability improvements. I 
> don't know if Karsten has any news about this topic, as I don't have an 
> answer to my e-mail for now. Perhaps we can clarify this on the list.
> 
> So it would be great if you add this to the topics to do and Clemens and 
> I would be lucky to dig into this and try to provide a great WebDAV 
> library used by many extensions and the core.
> 
> 
> Greets
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> Kasper Skårhøj schrieb:
>> Should 4.5 also have an innovative edge?
>>
>> Instead of only discussion how we can change current buttons, links  
>> and orders, why not think about whole new ways of doing things that  
>> make TYPO3 easier?
>>
>> On the innovation page we break out of the current details of 4.0 and  
>> into free thinking. Please feel free to go there and brainstorm.
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Usability_Innovation
>>
>> - kasper
>>
>> "A contribution a day keeps the fork away"
>> -------------------------------
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>>
>>
only 4 words: this is a great idea!

Andreas

P.S.: Hey, i start indexing with 0 ;)