Hi Gijs, Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> Question is: are there really (that many) features that we cannot > install easily on a wiki/CMS? The most prominent item that comes into my mind is what is probably well-decribed as "dynamic content" (choose a better term, if you like). Being the technical maintainer of another Wiki instance, the item which I'd consider to be most-needed is the ability just to drop some P* script programming language code into the page and let this program code render whatever fits my needs. Just as one among other obvious examples: Most of us certainly know, that editing tables in *Wiki is a "major PITA" (TM). I'd like to drop some P* code into the page which is capable of operating on top of a database handle and does the formatting of the DB query result (obviously accompagnied by some caching mechanism). Or, as a FG-related example, think of the aircraft download page: Wouldn't it be nice just to let some programming code hook onto whichever repository you like and have the download page generated on the fly (caching applies here as well). In general, with a 'sophisticated' website I'd like to have the ability to drop some scripting code into whichever place on a website I like to do whatever I like. According to my knowledge this is not going to work with *Wiki. I _guess_ it's possible with systems of the Drupal-league, certainly with Django and comparable (or bigger) systems. The latter ones, on the other hand, require more programming to get even the core setup running .... ;-) Nevertheless I agree with the forementioned opinion that the biggest obstacle on the way to a "better" (TM) website might not be a technical one. Best regards, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel