[TYPO3-hci] New to T3 internals - Is the backend abstracted? Complete overhaul of the BE?

[Marion Seitz]

Hi everybody!

I am new to this list - so just a brief introduction: I am working as
webeditor and one of my main jobs is to teach others how to use TYPO3. My
employer is a non-profit youth organisation and our main reason to urge
other associations (within our organisation) to use TYPO3 is that this CMS
is so relatively easily accessible (I'll come to usability issues later). 

Our "clients" mainly have rudimentary hardware and software. They don't have
fancy computers and they usually don't allow Java, Flash and thelikes on
their websites. They use TYPO3 because they know that they must use the
internet and need a CMS - but they don't usually have the capability or even
willingness to allow more than HTML (broadly speaking) - even JavaScript has
had a hard time getting accepted...

I don't have the technical background to fully explain - but I do hope you
get my point: TYPO3 has only been interesting for us because it is so easily
accessible and doesn't need all that fancy stuff. Although I am extremely in
favour of simplifying the backend: please don't forget about all the humble
users out there. Please don't get carried away. Visions are a wonderful
thing. But TYPO3 should be careful with them.

Marion



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An: TYPO3 human computer interaction team
Betreff: Re: [TYPO3-hci] New to T3 internals - Is the backend abstracted?

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Yet generally I think it is possible to push the usual backend stuff OSS
CMSes have to a true next level. I mean beyond a reborn Multi- Browser T3
Classic, now also known as Ajax. Especially with good asynchronous caching
mechanisims and a good VM to implement them.  
Xical (www.xical.org) is a Flash based Rich Media Framework and E-
Learning/Presentation Player I've developed over the past 2,5 years and it
has some sophisticated mechanisims to ensure optimal bandwidth awareness.
Some abstraction of the gadgets I built into that and we have ourselves the
underpinnings of a serious T3 Flash Client.

But there's also room for partial aproaches. For instance, one idea I've
been having since maintaining www.derma.de (a large T3 site under heavy
load, 80+ Kilo Hits/Month) is the File-Funnel(TM!). You have a little square
window app running on you desktop (Java, RunRev, XUL, Ajax, Whatever) - only
like 150 pixels across. Whenever you want to upload a file to a T3 Server
you just drag-and-drop it on that File-Funnel which then connects to the
preset T3 Server Account and advertises that files position. Next time
around of the asynchronous refresh of the regular T3 backend you get an
update in your "file- pipe" listing that file and can tell T3 to upload it
whenever you fancy. 
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