On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:51:17PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
I'd have thought to keep the backend simple it should just be a cosmetic change. That would of course mean that people could hack the forms in order to fill "invalid" data though; I suppose it depends whether we think that is likely to be a problem.
If we had a mechanism to specify a node as being of a particular type - modify the new page maker to first ask you what kind of node you want to create? - I don't see people entering irrelevant metadata as being a problem, because then a page marked as being of a particular type would simply not show irrelevant metadata at all, regardless of whether it had been entered or not. If people did mess around and enter irrelevant metadata, the system could accept it silently and not apparently do anything (the 'non-failure failure' approach) or return some kind of error.