One of the concepts that I find very intriguing today is that of inline editing. Inline editing refers to being able to view a website normally and change the content directly on that page. This concept has been used via data grids for a while now, but is starting to become a more common way to update regular xhtml content on a web page.
The most common way to have a layman update content on a site is through an administration page. That is, the user will log in to the admin section of a site, choose the page to edit from a list of available pages, and then update the content through an online form and submit those changes. The changes are entered into the database and the next time the page is loaded, the server-side code pulls the new content to include into the page.
There are two obvious drawbacks to this set-up. Read the rest of this entry »
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