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Re: [orion-dev] Sites suggestion
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Hey John,
Showing the full URL with hostname would be a good UI improvement (opened [1] for this).
What did you mean by "full file path" though? Is that like showing a complete site map by expanding the contents of any folders you've mapped?
E.g. If you decide to map the "purple" folder in your workspace to the root of a site (say
jjb.oriohub.org), you'd see something like this:
File Full URL
--------- --------
purple/purple.js http://jjb.orionhub.org/purple.js purple/license.txt http://jjb.orionhub.org/license.txt
purple/lib/require.js http://jjb.orionhub.org/lib/require.js
...
WRT what you said about copying: the model behind the Orion site hosting feature is to expose a subset of your Orion files at some URL. Once you've set this up, the site reflects the live contents of those files as you edit. There's only ever 1 copy of those files, which is in your workspace. If you delete them, the remote site 404s. The site itself is transient: it's just a bunch of path-rewriting rules.
What you described sounds more like the FTP model of site hosting: grab a bunch of files from A, copy them into B. This is edging closer to a "build" step, which is a can of worms we haven't really opened yet. But it is probably a more familiar model for web devs.
But even without something like that, I think there's a lot we can do to make the UI clearer...
Mark
[1]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=369727
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:02 AM, John J Barton
<johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I saw a UI vaguely similar to the sites page, but unlike the sites page, I instantly understood this one. It had the two halves of the mapping, but instead of just the delta paths, the full URL and full file path were listed. This made all of the difference! Right off I knew which was which, no guessing or reading. I could copy them into the browser/file system and test them instantly. I could copy in the reverse direction as well.
jjb
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