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>I work on a lot of projects where my clients use Google Drive to update copy leaving me to then either update a CMS or some flat JSON/XML/YAML files. I could r
by jrogers65 14y ago
>I work on a lot of projects where my clients use Google Drive to update copy leaving me to then either update a CMS or some flat JSON/XML/YAML files. I could risk allowing my clients to update flat files but if I had £1 for every time a JSON/XML/YAML file didn't validate, well, I'd have about £38.
The rational solution is to do what everyone has been doing since the dawn of the web, which is to provide an admin interface, no?
This whole thing, to me, looks like a case of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." At the same time, it's a novel and creative approach which gives it a cool factor.
- ahmednuaman 14y agoTrue, really it was to do with the fact that a client of mine wondered why they couldn't use Google Drive to keep a site up to date. The beauty of Drive is that all the hard work (auth, wysiwyg, media files) is all done for you, and it's secure and easy to share files; hence this only taking me a few days to complete.
- jrogers65 14y agoHow are the access times compared to a traditional setup? I imagine that it's not too bad as google has some serious hardware behind their effort.