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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Or, if you remember my HGObject class example you could have a:
>
> class HGImage(HGObject):
>   def display(self, verbosity='terse', displayType='html')
>     "Overriding display method in HGObject supperclass"
>     ....
>     return "<img src="IMGURL" width="400" height="300" alt="Photo of a 
> bannana">"

>  > Micro task: get system to return a page with an image in it.

FYI the zope image object by default returns an img tag for/of itself, 
with available attributes in place when called - it calculates width and 
height itself when image data is stuffed into it...

I'm curious why you would want to do an initial UI in PHP on top of zope 
instead of just zope.

>  > My tendancy is not to go overboard on moderation for stage 1.
>  > Initially we will not have that many users so manual moderation
>  > by us will do. I think we should focus of getting a product out the door.
>
> I agree with you here, even though I think moderation essential to
> having a largish scale system with many users, it's not really part of
> the focus of this particular grant.  It's more of one of those things
> on my personal todo list.

Agree for initial phases - just want to avoid designing ourselves into a 
corner/out of certain options as we get there.

>  > Chad:
>  > >> ...data not method, possibly as a attribute of the object in the form of
>  > >> a list of urls.
>  > 
>  > Methods not data! First rule of OO design don't expose your
>  > data, expose methods. Rather that

I simply meant that the URL data some method accesses should not be 
hard-coded...

> Direct attribute access is fairly
> common in python.  In fact, most builtin python classes have directly
> accessible attributes.

Yeah, very true in zope objects, and one can add arbitrary attributes 
via the TTW management interface to most any integral zope object as 
well as to objects of one's own.
Only problem I've had with this so far is when creating new instances 
manually TTW I have to remember to add an attribute that's expected in 
for example my master page template.
Adding programmatically, I only have to remember it once, when I'm 
writing the add object code...

>  > Theres a nice way of handelling this on mathworld. Besides
>  > each link is a little "fix broken link" button, so we can, to
>  > some extent, let our users do the work for us. (or at least point out 
>  > where the problems are).

Yeah, on my to-do list for my site (last priority...:-p) is to simply 
replace my static links pages with a searchable links DB product.


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