Re: Google Gears

On 5/31/07 11:21 AM, Boris Mann wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Syscrusher <syscrusher4th.com> wrote:
> 
>> In my situation, it's not a "community"
site where the posts are simply
>> moderated and approved, but rather a publication
where the posts are
>> actually edited for content and HTML formatting.
What I envision is that
>> one could download all the unpublished nodes to
local storage, edit them
>> there, mark the desired publication date/time for
each, and upload the
>> changed versions.
>>
>> I'm not saying it's trivial to build this, just
that it would be very
>> useful if available. 
> 
> Which is possible already with the Blog API (been
editing Drupal posts
> offline for years). 

*and* presuming you're using a "simple" content
type - i.e. title & body
only.

> Except for the desired publication date/time,
> which would mean extending the MetaWeblog API. 

MetaWeblogAPI already supports sending pubDate (supported by
most major
clients) ... the issue is more that Drupal by default
doesn't have any
concept of "don't show anything published in the
future".

> Although I'd rather see
> people work on the Atom Publishing Protocol.
> 

/me *winks* at eaton.

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