Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Displaying diffs

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Malcolm Ryan wrote:

> I was just reading Jeff's responses to Arno's comments on the API. Since
> they were scattered throughout the page, and I didn't want to scan through
> the whole page to find them, I read them in 'diff' mode. But, of course,
> I missed out on all the context, and the formatting. This lead me to an
> idea:
> 
> Would it be possible to add a different kind of 'diff' mode, which showed
> the whole page but highlighted the recent additions? (Or, if we had
> version histories and user authentication, highlighted the changes since
> I last read this page?)

Yes and yes, and it's an idea I've played with (in my head at least).
Doing it by diffs is somewhat awkward though... what would be cool is to
store the pages in a format that preserves the change information somehow.
Outside of XML though, I haven't had any ideas how to preserve this info.

~swain

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