I've been asked to find the most appropriate framework with which to implement the following:
A website with 1. Modules, which separate (partially user-configurable) style, from user settings, from content. A bit like the igoogle modules. 2. ...which can be inserted in various places in a page, depending on the user's preferences, again think netvibes, igoogle, librarything, etc. 3. ...which can be inserted via some Ajax magic into an external page. No problem if this is limited to "no login" modules only. 4. Also the whole thing has to have easy interaction with an XML-based database and web services. most data will be from these sources and not from an SQL database. 5. ...and be easy to use & open source, have many developers who like to work with it. I was thinking (2) is fairly easy to do with a bit of javascript/ scriptaculous, also (3) can probably be added quite easily with some limitations. So this leaves mainly 1: Is there a standard way in django, or a package, to easily render a basic look of a module, with user settings and style in a standard way? Support for skins? Forms that refresh a module only on submit? Anything that can help here? 4: Can you easily replace (most of) the 'model' with something so different? If you know any other solutions that would work here, I'd also like to hear them. I'm not expecting there is a full solution available anywhere, but mostly looking for modules etc. which can help to do part of this. The focus here is on quickly getting something out and then drawing in other open-source developers for more modules. PS. Not really a Python user, and huge Ruby fanboy, but since I don't have to implement the thing I might as well look at Python solutions too. In case some of this is RTFM-level stuff just point me to the appropriate FM. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
