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On 11/14/06, Jon Stahl <jon at onenw.org> wrote:
>
> > However, I am a bit lost on whether some features exist yet,
> > I have seen them mentioned but not sure if they got anywhere.
> >
> > 1) Podcast support -- ability to deal with enclosures and to
> > have the podcast-specific rss tags. Assuming this has not
> > been done, I am looking to see if the following are available:
>
> Not there yet.  Podcasting can be done with Plone 2.5, though, via the
> Plone4ArtistsAudio product.
> http://www.plone4artists.org
>

This is something we'd like to support via an adapter in Quills 2.0,
it's what we have been calling "any-content-as-weblog-entry".

>
>
> > 2) More customizable "description" field -- I want to provide
> > a link to the podcast rss (currently NOT the rss of the
> > quills instance because of lack of podcast support) in the
> > description so that people can easily click to find the
> > "official" rss and more easily copy it into their podcatcher.
> >  Currently I have the rss address in text but since I cannot
> > highlight it or create a link many people overlook it and
> > thus don't subscribe properly.
>
> The "description" field from Plone is plain-text only.  You'd have to
> customize your copy of quills to add a richtext field at the beginning
> of a blog.

I talked to someone, maybe rocky, a while back about a simple solution
for implementing a rich description field.  Basically, you want to
hide the widget for the dc:Description field and run a transform when
the rich description is modified to serialize an unformatted, text
description.

It would be great to see this functionality available as a generalized
content adapter or something.

> Note to Quills-devs: I actually think it would be a great idea to have a
> richtext field available at the top of the blog for stuff like this --
> I'm increasingly of the belief that rich-text fields above (and maybe
> below) templates that list stuff (like Quills) is a good design pattern,
> because it adds tremendous design flexibility at virtually zero
> complexity.  (See, for example, David Siedband's "RichTopic" product
> http://plone.org/products/richtopic.)

We are also looking to Haystack1 for auto-summarization as an option
in 1.6-land.

Probably, both of these functionalities should not be part of Quills,
but should work well with Quills.

> > 3) Quills sidebar that is easier to edit -- To be able to
> > change the existing rss tags and auto-discoverable rss feeds
> > to be the offsite feeds rather than the quills default ones.
> > I know that tweaking can happen at the template level but
> > when running multiple feeds off one site I'm looking for
> > something easier if I can.
>
> Not editable Through The Plone at the moment.  Sorry.
>

I did play with some of this preliminary code in Plone 3.0 the other
day, it was pretty nifty.

Where would auto-discoverable feeds come from? FOAF? OpenID?
Trackback? et. al.?  This is a really neat idea, I think, for 1.6 or
2.0-land.

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