Re: PaceSliceAndDice2

[Ezra Cooper <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/2/05 5:19 AM, "David M Johnson" <Davidm.Johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Ezra Cooper wrote:
>
>> On 3/1/05 6:56 PM, "Robert Sayre" <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I would be interested in seeing how many WG members are interested in
>> these
>> "sub-collections." Speaking as an implementor, I don't need this
>> feature.
> 
> 
> Sounds useful to me. After all, most blog servers support hierarchical
> categories. What better way to splice and dice than by the user's own
> categories. 
>
> A blog client developer might have some ideas about using a tree view
> of a blog with each folder representing a category.
>
> A wiki server developer might have some ideas about allowing clients to
> navigate around the pages of the wiki, where the tree of wiki pages is
> modeled as sub-collections.

Yes, I think those are exactly the kinds of use cases that I had in mind.
This way, a "dumb client" doesn't have to do a sync operation, it can just
present the tree view as it comes.

> But I guess I don't have a specific need for this either.
> Maybe somebody else does.

Turning it over in my mind, it does seem useful. But if no one is willing to
raise a hand and say, "I'd use it if it were there," ...

Ezra