Tutorial for "Building a CMS Client With Mozilla"

Summary

As the CMS world works to improve usability for content authors, many
projects are exploring richer applications.  OSCOM has started a new
project called Twingle, which aims to improve authoring usability for
content management.  Twingle is written as a Mozilla application and is
focused on "Locating/Creating/Collaborating".

In this tutorial, participants will build a Mozilla client for OSCOM
servers such as Midgard, Zope, and Lenya.  Special emphasis will be
placed on the role of WebDAV and RDF.

Objectives

   o Learn Mozilla programming for networked applications

   o Investigate the issues in expressing a CMS to an external
application

   o Explore new techniques for improving CMS authoring

Technologies

   o XUL, XML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, XBL

   o RDF, WebDAV

Outline

   o Install and modify "Hello World" application in Mozilla

   o Practice debugging techniques critical to productive Mozilla
development

   o Plan the architecture of a model-view-controller Mozilla application

   o Retrieve data from an OSCOM server and populate a user interface

   o Modify data and update the server

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