On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:19PM -0500, James Taylor wrote:
> > You are stating that:
> >
> > 0) download a working copy [this is done only once]
> > 1) go to a page
> > 2) edit it
> > 3) save it
> > 4) commit the page
> >
> > is comparably simple with
Feh. I said no such thing. I said that if you wanted to do multiple page
edits without spamming the change-notification mailing list, then SubWiki
makes it possible [by following the steps you suggest].
In no way did I say it was "comparably simple" to standard Wiki editing. Of
course not... jeez, just how small do you think my brain is? :-)
> > 1) go to a page
> > 2) edit it
> > 3) save it
> >
> > and I disagree.
>
> If it means I can edit the page in my fancy editor of choice rather than
> a dumb web browser then it is much simpler.
And standard tools and standard commit emails and standard access control
and all kinds of other stuff.
> > The (only?) beauty of a wiki is its dead-simple editing cycle.
>
> I believe sub wiki also has a TTW editing interface. No reason you can't
> have both. Because it uses subversion to hold pages, the interface is
> nicely seperated from the data store.
Yes. You definitely cna edit pages via the web site. That *is* what a Wiki
is all about. Not the stupid formatting rules.
http://test.webdav.org/wiki/Welcome
And "both" is actually incorrect. You have four ways to view the content and
three ways to edit the content:
1) read/write via the Wiki itself
2) read/write via working copies
3) read/write via WebDAV (new from sussman and jerenkrantz)
4) read via web browser
> Sure, it is not ready for primetime, but I like the idea a lot.
The code is ready, but I don't have all the "standard" formatting rules and
macros in there right now. There are a number of things that people expect
which just aren't in there.
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
