Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Wiki RFC Discussion

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

electron schrieb:
>>This seems fine by me, a standard could benefit everyone well. Below are
 >
> Standard for whom? There is no common wiki standard yet. If people will 
> decide on a standard one could switch from engine to engine, and only 
> the wiki's with the best features will survive. That's far too liberal 
> for me. Most new engines nowadays only survive because of their "weird" 
> new syntax and their usebase hooked to that, and not because of their 
> features. I don't like concentration that much.
> 
> Before we get too far off base, are you for or against the RFC? I'm going to
> guess we are both on the same page as for it, if not what should it be?

I'm strongly against this RFC, because I see only completely new 
inventions for wiki syntax. If so, then please a least common 
denominator of the most used wikis.

And in a less stronger opinion I'm against standardization of wiki 
syntax also. we already so many different wiki formats, which reminds me 
on lisp in the 80'ies or scheme on the 90'ies. if a standard will come 
the small ones will die, because the features will then be more 
important. this happened to lisp with a complicated standard and scheme 
not with a super simple standard. that's why we have 300 different 
scheme implementations and 5 in lisp. (and only 3 of them strict ansi)

> The XML schema is only for exporting/storage, not meant to be seen by the
> end user or even what we store in our databases. (Unless one is really nuts
> and has a ton of drive space.) Only to be included for engine portability.

I know I know. Another overly bloated XML parsing class just to please 
some standard. And which will never be supported by the smaller wiki's, 
where you will need it.
At least it must be loaded only on demand :)