From: Stephan D. <ste...@gm...> - 2002-04-14 10:15:54
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On Thursday 01 January 1970 00:59, you wrote: > sourceforge.net > X-BeenThere: web...@li... > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net > Precedence: bulk > List-Help: > <mailto:web...@li...?subject=help> > List-Post: <mailto:web...@li...> > List-Subscribe: > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss>, > <mailto:web...@li...?subject=subscribe> > List-Id: Discussion of Webware for Python including feedback and proposals. > <webware-discuss.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss>, > <mailto:web...@li...?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: > <http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=webware-discuss> > X-Original-Date: 13 Apr 2002 22:51:11 -0500 > Date: 13 Apr 2002 22:51:11 -0500 > > Maybe it's the weather, but I've been itching to do programming that > isn't for anything in particular, but just fun hacking. So I've been > working on a Webware-based Wiki. The current progress is at: > http://wiki.colorstudy.net -- you can fetch a tarball of the code from > http://wiki.colorstudy.net/code.tar.gz (updated as I go along) It looks great. > > I'd love to get feedback from people, and perhaps we can make this a > group project -- there's not really any Webware applications of general > interest right now, and it might provide us a basis for doing some of > the infrastructure things like us > er management and such that are talked > about. Hmm, that would be a good idea > > I also am quite interested in using some of the Wiki metaphors to move > towards a CMS of sorts. In that vein I've tried to avoid some of > Wiki-isms that keep a Wiki site from being quite polished. For > instance, links are phrase-based (like [a link somewhere]) instead of > being with StudlyCaps, and I'd rather avoid making a complex ASCII-based > markup. I have to admit that the ASCII markup is what I really liked about the Wiki idea, since writing XML/HTML is not the nicest thing to do. > In place of a canonical text-based markup, I'd like to work on > reversable translations, from some abstract (XML) backend to various > other formats -- the viewable HTML, something fit for WYSIWYG editors > (and IE), something for people editing text, etc. Why not have both? The ASCII markup is just a shorthand for some XML format that is used internally? We would have the best of both worlds: easy editing with the browser and a good internal representation. If you could live with ASCII markup, I'd try to write a python parser for the TWiki syntax (or copy some stuff from MoinMoin). > > This isn't self-hosting, because the pages probably will have to be > reset often, so if you have ideas you should put them on the TWiki > Wiki. I spent some time looking for novel features in Wikis, the most > advanced ones seem to be TWiki (twiki.org), OpenWiki (openwiki.com), > UseModWiki, and perhaps MoinMoin and ZWiki, though I couldn't find good > features lists on those. TWiki and MoinMoin seem to have a lot of > markup features, which might get a bit out of hand. Anyway, any ideas > are of much interest, as are experiences with the MoinMoin code (there's > so much of it!) I put some notes in: > http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/OtherWikisFeatures > > This is much more fun that taxes, so I'll probably be developing lots of > little things in th > e next couple days. > > Ian Stephan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > Web...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss |