Currently we have a pre-alpha Zen. It has some capabilities that a complete demonstration version (Alpha Zen) should have. We need a plan to develop the pre-alpha Zen to the Alpha Zen. This is it.
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Here are the salient points about Alpha Zen:
When is released, will host it and be completely revamped. At the same time, will be moved into this , which will be released along with . Code from will be cherry-picked and installed on . Prior to the release of , will be for experimenting and providing early glimpses of the Zen framework.
Poor, innocent nontechnical visitors will be the target audience of the homepage and a section of Mashweb.Club. A section of Mashweb.Club with a target audience of programmers will be clearly marked "Advanced". The purpose of Mashweb.Club will be to inspire interest in using and further developing the Zen framework.
Mashweb.Club will allow a visitor to create web pages using any of the most common responsive web design patterns (also called multi-device layout patterns). See , (bit.ly/web-design-patterns). These pages will not be based upon templates. The DOM structure of the page will be live edited, then persisted (only for registered users). This editing will be described in a separate team discussion here.
A registered user will be able to upload a Scheme file with DOM and JavaScript extensions and run it inside the web page he creates.
A visitor will be able to create very simple web apps using a visual program editor. See the barely begun web-call.cc subproject (.
Using the HTML5 Drag and Drop API, a visitor will be able to drag and drop text and other types of data from outside the web browser into a Zen web page.
Using the HTML5 Asynchronous Clipboard API, a visitor will be able to copy text and other types of data from outside the web browser into a Zen web page.
A registered user will be able to persist any of his Zen web pages.
There are many important details to the DOM editing (point #3), covered separately in .
