My 2 cents about the CGI-App wiki. I recently halted development on my app to learn about Unicode and UTF-8 (and I guess I also ended up learning about character encodings in general -- wow, did I miss some important training somewhere in my past).
As usual, I found many good discussions in the CGI-App mail archive (thank you all) but nothing on the wiki. I decided I would spend a few hours and put a summary together of what I learned. I decided against putting it on the CGI-App wiki for the following reasons (i.e., lack of features): 1. no automatic table of contents generation (visit http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Unicode_UTF-8 and you'll see why this was important) 2. no ability to edit small sections of a page Some other nice features about wikibooks - source code highlighting - discussion page (I did put a link on the CGI-App wiki to the Wikibooks doc, so if someone searches for Unicode or UTF-8, something will show up.) I don't think we should write a CGI-App-based wiki for the following reasons: 1. It will never have the feature set of other wikis, which means that probably no one else would ever use this wiki except us. 2. Regarding "it would be a good CGI-App sample app for people to look at and learn from" -- there are already some sample apps out there that people can look at. I don't think we need a wiki sample reference app. If we're going to collectively build a new sample/reference app, how about something more interesting -- like a social networking site/framework. 3. It won't see the light of day for months... this is the 2nd or 3rd time this was discussed, and I didn't see any marching orders materialize from this thread yet... Regarding the current wiki, I think a few simple changes would make it look a lot better: - set the default font size (to something smaller) - use something other than verdana for the headings (that font looks bad large) - lighten the dark black border around the main content -- it is too dark -- make it a little lighter, and add a CSS3 shadow to it or the left pane for a little spice (don't worry if it doesn't show on IE). I think the biggest problem with the current wiki is that most people don't contribute to it much. There is a wealth of info in the archives that I would really like to see digested and put on the wiki -- but that takes time that most of us don't have. In summary, I'd rather switch to a more feature rich wiki (I don't care if it's written in Perl), and have all of the people who were willing to spend time writing a new CGI-App-based wiki instead spend their time writing a more useful reference app, or write some useful pages on the new wiki! -- Mark R. ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
