[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: portletbridge/web-clipping

[cdelashmutt]

After trying out the latest portletbridge (circa Jan 2007), I'm beginning to question the value of a full page in a portlet window.  It seems to me that it might be more useful to simply clip a small part of a page.  For instance, there is perhaps this table that you want to display, but you really don't need anything else.

Web Clipping in general has many challenges.  Does it make sense to include CSS styling from the source?  What about JavaScript?  Personally, I'd rather the source strictly be used for data, and the portal styles should be applied to the content.

Specific to portletbridge, I tried to point it to Slashdot, which is what they seem to use for testing.  In Portal 2.6, this causes the Renaissance theme to get corrupted.  I don't know if this is a Portal problem or what, but it seems like the slashdot styles are leaking into Portal.  The image and link HREF stuff does seem to be re-written properly, it's just that styling that is messed up.  

Strangely, portletbridge actually only seems to work properly with plan HTML.  If I try to go to a site that claims to be XHTML, I start getting problems.  For instance, I've tried to clip some stuff from a site running RT, and none of the link re-writing works.

Is there any interest in this type of a feature?  I thought I was interested, but I don't know if it even makes sense now.

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