Tickets :: Comment on [#12598] Open Ansel to external resources

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Comment	>> Since Ansel uses VFS to store the images, it would make more sense to >> add a WebDAV driver to Horde_Vfs. Then you could use owncloud or any >> other cloud storage service that provides WebDAV API. >> Not sure about external specific photo/video services. > > IMO, this won't be enough. Accessing/displaying images from backend > storage is only one part of what Ansel provides. My plan is to > implement different "remote gallery" types for different services > (utilizing various Horde_Service_* libraries). I actually > hacked-together a prototype of this working with Vimeo back in Horde > 3 to test the idea. This lets us be more flexible in what services we > can support, not limiting us to cloud services with WebDAV access and > providing a more feature rice experience for those remote APIs that > offer more features (I'm thinking Tags, Geolocation, "likes", > different ways of grouping photos together etc...) Any photo sharing > site we can write a Horde_Service_* package for could be supported. > > We could (and should) make a "WebDAV gallery type" one of a multitude > of remote gallery types, but shouldn't limit remote access to WebDAV.
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