new site and some remarks

[Jano Kula]

Hi,

new Daisy 2.2 live site is up: www.csds.cz


Working with Daisy was a joy, anyway here are the main troublesome
tasks, which were not that straight forward and workarounds were needed
to solve them:

1. different datetime formats

Transforming datetime to different format (e.g. DD-MM-YYYY) with XSL
stylesheets is possible, but different locales need different treatment
and the things get more complicated. Possibilty to select or define date
& time format per site or as a whole would be a great improvement.

2. access to field and part labels in xslt styling

As far as I know, there is now way to use field labels of specific
language in XSLT styling. If I define field as a list and label the list
items, I can't use those mutilingual labels in query and document styling.

3. switching locale

Since languages are served through sites, switching site changes texts
to different language, but the locale (hence all part and field labels,
sorting, etc.) remains unchanged. I've added locale cookie to the site
switching for now, but this needs some general solution, in my opinion.
Guest user won't search for place to change his locale, he just wants to
change everything to different language while switching a site.

4. importing older sites

Importing existing web pages into Daisy needs to date back older pages.
As suggested by Paul, I've solved this using custom field (complications
in stylesheets: distinguish between old and new ones), but some users of
Daisy are changing creationTime directly in database, which seems to be
easier. Polite way to change these data in database (even with forced
re-caching or re-indexing) would simplify the task.

Smaller issues:

5. saving javascript tasks (this seems to be being solved with new
document tasks improvements)

Nice little improvement would be to store often and not so often user
defined javascript tasks for future use. Now they disappear after a
while from the tasks history.

6. css

Following CSS code could be added to the default daisy CSS. Without it
short pages (without vertical scrollbar) jump from the centered position
to the right with deafult skin. You can see this behaviour at the demo
site also: http://demo.daisycms.org/DemoSite_A/2-Demo.html

html {
overflow: scroll;
overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: auto;
}



All in all, big thanks to developers and others in the comunity.

Jano

_______________________________________________
daisy community mailing list
Professional Daisy support: http://outerthought.org/en/services/daisy/support.html
mail to: daisy@...
list information: http://lists.cocoondev.org/mailman/listinfo/daisy