It would be nice if, instead of entering content in a textarea, you could set a link to a file on the server where entries could get their content from. I say this most especially for templates, so that you could edit them in and IDE and see instant feedback.
I know that I can place an include statement in a snippet, but just having a link field would be much cleaner.
I also know that similar desires have been expressed. I’m just tossing in my 2 cents as well.
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One of the things I’m experimenting with in 1.0 is indeed the ability to indicate if an element stores it’s content in the database or on the filesystem (or a combination, where the latest version of an element’s content might be stored as a physical file). This would also open the door for protocol access to the content elements via FTP, WebDAV, or other approaches, and eventually, auto-versioning when saving changes to a file on the filesystem via the protocol interface.
Wonderful. I’m sure you’ll achieve useable results, and I’m looking forward to checking them out.
