[Radiant] Part types

[John W. Long]

Ryan Platte wrote:
> Maybe somebody's had this idea already, but better to echo it  
> accidentally than to lose a good brainstorm.
> 
> Somebody brought up the idea of a central asset store. i like this  
> idea more than trying to shoehorn assets into some relationship with  
> pages.

How do you see this relating to part types?

> So it occurs to me, parts are currently text + filter, right? (if  
> "filter" isn't assigned per part, i think it should be)

Filters are assigned per part.

> What if what's now a "filter" also got to draw the admin interface  
> for that part? So Textile and Markdown could have their own previews,  
> a rich text editor could do its thing without bothering anybody else,  

That's an interesting idea. I'm considering giving behaviors the ability 
to alter a page's interface, but perhaps filters should be able to do 
the same. (See: http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/40/.)

> and an image part could give us a gallery-browse option.

Ug. This doesn't smell right to me. Filters are for filtering text. Not 
adding images to pages.

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John Long
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