Reinforcement Learning and
Artificial
Intelligence (RLAI)
newer proposal, based on in-browser editing, for open pages 2
this is a page for working
towards a specification for open pages 2.0. for now let me do all
the editing of the page proper---please propose ways to flesh out,
complete, or change the spec in the form of comments. if i agree
i will just move your comment over to the main fields of the page.
thanks, rich
notes on open pages 2
merge the following goals
limited development
<2 weeks to develop
little or no ongoing maintenence
wysiwyg, in-browser, limited editing of text portions of the page
supported in firefox, mozilla, and perhaps safari and ie
fonts, colors, lists, headings, tables
escape to html
full, easy editing in composer
style copying
simple page layout
maximizing the editable portion
little clutter in the plain view (show/hide)
page orientation rather than site orientation
scalable, non-site-oriented treatment of images, pages, and links
owners, authors, variable access
comments
self documenting
SPECIFICATION (a start)
there are several screens to design:
1. the ordinary view. this is almost all page-specific
content. at the top is a show menu link and add the bottom is a
#comments (add a comment) thing
2. the menu view. if you show the menu then you get the following
information and options (i am not sure how these are presented, maybe
on the side as now or more minimally at the top).
a) info: owner, other authors, last edit (with options to somehow see
more edits and restore previous versions), number of page views etc.,
how you are currently logged in (or if not logged in an opportunity to
log in), some summary of the policy options for the page (who can edit,
view, etc), "more info may be available if you login"
b) options: edit, edit externally, create new page based on this one,
upload file, administer page, subscribers, about open pages
3. the edit view. this should be simpler than the current one. the
toolbar will be always detached and will live at the top of the
page. this will work fine i think if the first two lines of the
edit view are blank so that one can see everything by scrolling.
below that is any editing critical info, such as who is allowed to
edit. and links for save changes and cancel (these are also at
the bottom). then just the substance of the page itself. we
are going to try to do without the summary, category, group and
stylesheet for now. the link and add image links will be
incorporated within the toolbar now at the top.
