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20020903 Tuesday September 03, 2002

The Future of Roller. To answer Dave's questions:

1) What do you want Roller to be?

I want it to be my personal portal, my weblogger, and my corporate website. I'm also interested in adding a wiki to my website for new projects. But I don't expect or need wiki functionality in roller. I'm planning on adding a new roller page with an iframe to a wiki such as Very Quick Wiki. The iframe gives me the ability to view another site/app with the current skin being used.

2) What are you interested in working on?

  • Converting the editor UI to use Tiles instead of including header/footer JSP pages.
  • Making the editor UI XHTML-compliant, while maintaining some backwards compatibility with Netscape 4.x.
  • Adding the ability to collapse/expand folders for bookmarks.
  • Adding search capability to weblog entries and entire site pages, either using Lucene or just 'like' SQL statements.
  • Investigating XDoclet and Castor and how it's being used so I can use them on my next project.
  • Adding an option for drop-down menus for editor UI (alternative to tabbed menu). I know there is a "Struts Menu" that has been converted to use CoolMenus, so maybe use this.

3) What features would you like to see added to Roller?

  • The ability to search weblog entries.
  • Ability to include an anchor name for each weblog entry, i.e. <a name="entryId..." id="entryId..."></a>. This would be convenient for other webloggers who are referencing your posts.
  • Ability to use other blogging client-side software to post to roller, besides just w:blogger.
  • Ability to edit (x)HTML via a web interface - in both Mozilla and IE.

I keep myself motivated by using Roller everyday as the engine behind this site. Thanks Dave, Roller has made the re-design of my website much easier, and it's opened my eyes to the world of weblogging. Good Stuff! Posted in Roller at Sep 03 2002, 06:49:32 AM MDT Add a Comment

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