Can't say more ;) +2 Gilles
2010/2/18 DaveG <[email protected]>: > > > 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 > -- --------------------------------------- | A | de la langue française | B | http://www.languefrancaise.net/ | C | [email protected] --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
