Sakai and Fluid

[Stephen Marquard]

We had Preferable in our 2-4-x build, but AFAIK it has never worked for 2-5-x:

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-11411

We liked the approach and ability for users to do some customization of their own look & feel. If it were more actively maintained, we might consider moving it into production.

Cheers
Stephen

Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
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>>> swg <sgithens at caret.cam.ac.uk> 05/06/08 1:16 PM >>>

I did the RSF port during a standard 4 hour friday night coffee house 
session.  I think someone might need to look at the 
(Prefer|Transform)able Service itself, because the JSF one didn't seem 
to be working.  But there is a stub where you can fill in the service calls.

I'll have to go back to a flash drive from a few OS Upgrades ago to find 
the code and check it in.  Should be able to do it sometime today, and 
then someone can fill in the calls to the TransFormable Service.

-Steve

Colin Clark wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On 5-May-08, at 10:15 AM, John Norman wrote:
>
>> Looking at Nathan's UX work on combining MyAccount pages with 
>> preferences, I realised that I didn't know the status of 'Preferable'
>
> I'm glad you like PreferAble! We built it a few years ago as a 
> prototype to show how new approaches to personalization and 
> accessibility could be added to Sakai. Since then, it hasn't seen a 
> lot maintenance or improvement, but I think with some work it could be 
> useful in the Sakai distribution.
>
> A few months ago, Steve Githens and I were working working on a port 
> of PreferAble's JSF tool to RSF. I helped to rework the markup and 
> make the JavaScript more unobtrusive. Steve was working on the tool 
> code. I haven't checked in with Steve on his status recently, but I 
> know he's ported similar tools very quickly. This version would form a 
> good basis for ongoing improvement.
>
> We're also planning to build a preferences editor component as part of 
> Fluid, moving much of PreferAble's logic onto the client side. The 
> server-side code could then be pared back to the storage and retrieval 
> of preferences. From a functional perspective, early thinking suggests 
> something along the lines of the BBC's "Display Options" feature on 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/, allowing users to customize the display using 
> pre-baked templates or individual options.
>
> The current plan is to work on this for the Fluid Infusion 0.6 
> release, due out in September. Help is, as always, encouraged and 
> appreciated.
>
>> For my part, I would like to see 'Preferable' be part of standard 
>> (accessible) Sakai. As we move to implement Nathan's designs, I would 
>> also like keyboard accessibility support to be built in wherever the 
>> Fluid/JQuery plugin can be used. Where a 'component' is used that 
>> matches a component in the Fluid library, I would like to suggest our 
>> policy should be to either use the Fluid component or work with Fluid 
>> to produce a component that works for Sakai and matches the 
>> accessibility of the Fluid component.
>
> I agree. This sounds like a sensible approach. We're working on 
> improved documentation for the Fluid/jQuery keyboard accessibility 
> plugin, but it's ready to use for many cases now. Here's the 
> in-progress API documentation:
>
> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Keyboard+Accessibility+Plugin+API 
>
>
> I really hope our existing components--the Reorderer, Uploader, and 
> some of the experimental widgets such as InlineEdit--will be useful in 
> implementing the UX initiative designs. We're also really interested 
> in getting involved in helping to build reusable components found in 
> Nathan's designs.
>
> Looking forward to a fruitful collaboration,
>
> Colin
>
> ---
> Colin Clark
> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
> http://fluidproject.org 
>
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