On 2/17/2010 6:34 PM, Petko Yotov wrote: > Hello. I'd like to request some comments from the community about two changes > of the default layout in a page history. > > When authors click on the "History" link, they see the differences between > page versions with mostly[1] rendered output, ie. '''bold''' is rendered as > bold text, a line starting with "!!" is rendered as a heading, [[#anchors]] > are not visible, etc. > > To see the differences in the source-wiki-text, authors need to click on the > link "Show changes to markup". It shows then the complete changes in plain > text. > > I'd like to read your comments on changing the default page history to show > the changes on the source-wiki-text instead of the rendered HTML. > > There will of course be an easy way to revert to the previous way, by editing > config.php, or by clicking on the link "Show changes to output". > > I believe authors understand wiki markup and there is no problem for them to > look at the source changes -- and it is actually better/easier to understand > what happened (and an opportunity to practice for unfrequent editors). Other > wiki engines (Mediawiki/Wikipedia) show only changes to the source-text. > > My second question is about the new word-level difference highlighting -- > should it be enabled by default? > > Admins could of course switch back to plain text, by editing config.php. > > Now it isn't default enabled, and an admin needs to edit config.php. To me, > word-level diffs are absolutely valuable[2] and an awesome help when reviewing > page changes. I don't see any good reason *not* to enable this for most wikis, > but I'd like to know what people from the community think. > > It should be noted that word-level diff highlighting can only work in "source > mode", not in rendered HTML output, that's why I'm asking the first question. I think both changes are good ideas. I rarely find the default HTML view useful, and usually switch to PmWiki view. I also enable InlineDiff on all my wikis, as this is considerably more useful than the old PmWiki way.
I guess the real question is why would we *not* do this? I'm not really seeing any downside. ~ ~ Dave _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
