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Roadmap - Questionaire Responses for AA CAMP 2004 |
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1. Main problems and annoyances you encounter when using ActionApps
The fact that html generated by Action Apps is not up to current standards. AA doesn't generate very much html on it's own but what little it does normally causes my pages not to validate as xhtml 1.1 strict. And the fixes would be so easy to make. Examples:
?AA_SL_Session=088a0c87061b1249247b305e952f0683&x=30"
This sort of url generates validation errors. Ampersands are invalid but replacing them with & is valid.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
In fact the above url with the session id generates a lot of other errors as well because of the special characters. I want all my pages to valid to the lastest standards in strict mode.
2. Features suggested for future development versions of ActionApps
One thing that comes to mind right away and is actually a very simple thing is the scroller when using slices. I would love the ability to specifically position the scroller. Instead it is placed by AA and always interferes with my style sheets, destroying the layout of the page. What I have to do is take the closing <div> tag for the container the scroller is created in, out of AA and put it in my html template after I call the slice, like so:
<!--#include virtual="/xyz/slice.php3?slice_id=add58e88c7487aff9b7dc8a7357e693d"-->
</div>
If I don't, AA places it outside of the container it belongs in (after the <div> tag), rather than inside it.
3. Comments About Usablility
None really other than the obvious, however the site module really needs to be documented.
4. General future development suggestions
It would be nice if there were a better way to manage changes to the layout/administration areas. In other words the ability to work on design changes without affecting the production environment and then once everything is ready, commit the changes with the ability to back them out if necessary.
Submited by:
Jeff Haney
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