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    • Andy Miller's Avatar
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    MissionControl 2 Status Update

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Just wanted to drop you all a line about MissionControl. Most of the issues at this point are related to 3rd party extensions. In MC I have tried to update the layouts that come out of Joomla with more usable HTML. To do this cleanly I used phpQuery to perform some DOM manipulations on the output. This worked out pretty well for the built-in extensions, but it's much more troublesome in 3rd party extensions. The problem is that 3rd party developers only ever develop their extensions against the default Joomla admin templates: Khepri and Bluestork (which are essentially very similar). This means that I have to debug and fix every aspect of these extensions against MC, and that's just not practical.

      My plan going forward is to work on a new version of MC that basically doesn't transform the output of the extensions area to such a degree as it does now. It won't look quite as good, but I think i can keep it pretty simple and make it look decent for most extensions. Also I plan on limiting the use of phpQuery to some specific things, such as the tab view for content editing. This should also speed things up a little bit.

      Also i'm going to stop developing for Joomla 1.5. The current version will be the end of the road for that release so I can focus on the new 1.7+ version.

      If i'm not very timely in answering posts in this forum, it's because i'm now focusing on this new approach. Please bare with me and i'll give you a status update as soon as I have some more information to share.

      Cheers!
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    Re: MissionControl 2 Status Update

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Thanks for the update and look forward to future developments of MC.
    • "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." ~Nelson Henderson
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  • Re: MissionControl 2 Status Update

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Do you still want bug reports for the current version?

      Ditto Brendan's comments -- thanks for the update, and looking forward to the next release.
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    Re: MissionControl 2 Status Update

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • keep the bug reports coming. It may or may not be relevant, but i'll know when i read the report :)
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