On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:58 PM, The Editor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've been wondering ever since why there are no helpful links on >> action.undo. >> >> 1) "Page edited by Markus." -> Markus could link to login.markus. >> (This applies to all usernames that are output anywhere. It's the web >> so I would link them.) >> >> I see that the changesummary would have to be saved as [[login.markus| >> Markus]]. > > The problem is, I suspect most sites don't have profile pages setup. > They may exist, but unless there is a strong user community, those > pages are blank. So a link won't mean much. But the action pages could > be easily customized to convert {member} to [[~{member}]]. You just > have to find them all.
Okay, I see this would lead to tons of ? links everywhere... Dismissed. >> 2) "Version: Mon Mar 8 21:12:52 2010" -> Could link to the stamped >> version of the page to allow looking at the whole page instead of its >> changes only. >> >> One more thought. The diff view is great but often I would prefer to >> (optionally) display a list of all the previous whole pages one after >> the other. In the sense of: >> >> for every stamp: print "!! date of stamp" and [(include stamp)] >> >> Often this would allow for easier identification of the version you >> are looking for. Especially if there are hard to notice changes in the >> markup which you would instantly see on the full page. > > This is a good idea, but to my knowledge there is no core > functionality to view a stamp page content. The diff function can read > and generate a comparison, but we'd have to have a special plugin or > add some new functionality somewhere to view the actual page. It could > be done of course, but I haven't been convinced it needs to be in the > core. A plugin seems more logical. Isn't the page simply everything down to ~data~? Wouldn't it be as simple as to process the stamp until that line? If this was true, then it would already be in the source (almost)... > > Cheers, > Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
