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Filebrowser Example Application
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:author: Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com>
Purpose
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This is primarily meant as an example of using Ajax (DHTML)
development using Paste, ZPT, and Wareweb. It's really an experiment.
It uses the `Prototype <http://prototype.conio.net/>`_ library (which
is currently distributed with the example).
I should say that I've found this library to be pleasant to work
with. It embodies several patterns -- but not too many -- and does
them well. I still don't understand the entire library, but what I
have used has worked well, without terrible challenges or
difficulties. And I don't have to work too hard.
I do have my eye on making this application into something of a
framework for other filesystem-like applications, like a CMS, or a svn
browser (this uses py.path, part of the `py lib
<http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/home.html>`_, which has an svn
backend already), or whatever.
Status
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This is still at an early stage. There are almost certainly security
problems with the application (where a user can escape the root of the
application). Lots of obviously useful functions (like add and
delete) are missing.
There's a framework kind of planned (``handlers``) for registering
different kinds of handlers with different file types. Reading
metadata, doing editing, etc. This hasn't been developed or used at
all yet.
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