hi all -
I am trying to set up a web page as my own task-management app that I can access from Mac, iPhone, online -
I want to be able to edit text fields from anywhere (i.e. if I finish a task, I want to be able to erase it from the site, say from my phone, without using Freeway, or any web-page editor - just want to be prompted to enter a password and then be able to make changes in a field of text) -
is there any way to do this??
thanks for any thoughts,
Rolf in MA
(I’ve been DL’ing 2do apps for 2 days and they all suck - thx)
Although Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of the web was that it would
be editable by all, no, that’s not possible in the way I think you want.
To allow content to be edited you need to have some mechanism to store
the edited content (generally a configured database) and security to
manage user access (more database stuff). Even apparently simple blog
comment systems use this kind of back-end complexity. Achieving this is
a major leap up and along from simply layout out pages. The options
given are actually some of the easiest to implement in an open-ended web
page design environment such as Freeway.
That said, there are services out there, like Disqus (if you want to take the blog comment idea to its natural conclusion) that try to take away as much of this complexity for you. But if you want something custom (and if you’re not happy with any of the roughtly 10,000 To-do apps in the App Store or on the Web, then clearly you do) you’re going to have to program it and design it yourself, and the programming part can easily be the larger of the two steps.
Walter
On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
Although Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of the web was that it would be editable by all, no, that’s not possible in the way I think you want.
To allow content to be edited you need to have some mechanism to store the edited content (generally a configured database) and security to manage user access (more database stuff). Even apparently simple blog comment systems use this kind of back-end complexity. Achieving this is a major leap up and along from simply layout out pages. The options given are actually some of the easiest to implement in an open-ended web page design environment such as Freeway.
Have a look at Litl Note (http://litlnote.com/) from Mark Fick who also created the Pulse CMS. Not free but a very simple flat-file to do list manager.
Regards,
Tim.
On 21 Dec 2011, at 05:21, rbpspc wrote:
thanks - Couch looks good - (but really? is there no way to add a text field that gen public w/ password can edit? like a blog comment??)
I found a really cool local storage script which would mean you could build this without any sort of security, since all the data is stored on the browser itself.
Each person who looks at this page has their own local database, in other words, so they can hack at it all they want and never see anyone else’s data!
The script is at http://www.jstorage.info and all you have to do is view source to see what I did. Make your own form layout, with all the colors and styles you want, paste the script into Protaculous, and there’s no step three!
Walter
On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:32 AM, rbpspc wrote:
that’s pretty close - (I wanted more colors, and all on one page) (i.e. no links - I don’t have THAT much to do) - but thanks, great suggestion
Here’s a Freeway download that shows this in action. Pay special attention to the Styles palette – there are custom styles there to make all the controls look the way they should, and to have the labels line up for each of the to-do items. Look in ‘body’,‘input’, ‘label’, and ‘.clear, #add’ – particularly look in the Extended dialog. Plenty of fun effects you can add through that keyhole.
On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
I found a really cool local storage script which would mean you could build this without any sort of security, since all the data is stored on the browser itself.
Each person who looks at this page has their own local database, in other words, so they can hack at it all they want and never see anyone else’s data!
The script is at http://www.jstorage.info and all you have to do is view source to see what I did. Make your own form layout, with all the colors and styles you want, paste the script into Protaculous, and there’s no step three!
Walter
On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:32 AM, rbpspc wrote:
that’s pretty close - (I wanted more colors, and all on one page) (i.e. no links - I don’t have THAT much to do) - but thanks, great suggestion