Re: [agilewiki-wiki] room for more pictures

[Bill La F. <Wil...@Su...>]

Hanif,

I love to toss out code! But the swing interface is important.

Sometimes you want to run applications locally. Sometimes the data is 
very private. And laptops are not always connected.

Remember that this is a general knowledge repository, not just a wiki. 
Previously it was (and will again be) an email client. Also in the past 
there were facilities for coordinating data (sharing) between infobases, 
so you could work locally and then dialup once a day and swap changes.

Now I'll also note that the Swing client and Servlet client are both 
very very small. Everything is done in the same process as the 
infobase--keeps it very fast and flexible. And note also that the back 
end doesn't even know the kind of client it is working with. The 
interface is XML, which can be very magical... when done right.

Bill

Hanif Babazadeh(CPU) wrote:

> Indeed it is an advanced feature, but sometimes, we -developers- 
> consume 80% of our precious time on a feature that's hardly used in 
> 20% of times.
> A Wiki is an online thing. This question always pops in my mind that 
> why a customer should need to run a local Wiki? ANd even if someone 
> does, do we need to complicate all the interface and design to fulfill 
> that rare use?
> Please don't make me wring. I'm just asking what I don't know. I mean 
> "is that swing interface important?"
>  
> thanks,
> H