This has the sounds of a bad experience :-)
Mark Guzdial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason for the create buttons is to keep robots from creating
> pages. When the creation signal was just a normal link, robots would
> traverse the link and create the pages. Robots don't traverse
> buttons.
>
> Mark
>
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> >Subject: [pws] I dont like the create page buttons
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> >When I am using standard Swiki, I do find that the "CREATE" buttons to be a
> >real problem. I am not really sure why they are there. Might I ask what was
> >the design decision that led to them?
> >
> >As far as I remember the original way that the wikiwiki web worked you would
> >type in some prose and any interesting topics would become candidates for
> >future pages. These pages would not be created until someone had something to
> >say about that topic. Hence the original "link to create page on a question
> >mark approach."
> >
> >I discovered that this was a configurable item in the swiki browser. So I
> >experimented with a different scheme. What I do now is *Page Does Not Exist
> >Yet* gets rendered into a Link, but I insert somewhat discretely a "+" sign
> >in font size="-2" just after the link. In this way the user can read the
> >prose and know that this link is a link to a page that does not actually
> >exist yet.
> >
> >This gives a pleasing user experience,
> >
> >just thought I would let you know!
> >
> >Keith
>
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