I agree with the proposal, having looked at PmWiki and being a long time user of inline diff Simon
On 19 February 2010 12:00, ABClf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- ____ http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
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