On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:06 PM, David Bovill <da...@architex.tv> wrote:
> On 27 March 2012 17:35, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> The considerations which have come to mind so far: >> >> - i would prefer to keep it in wiki form, as opposed to embedded docs, >> because i often write docs from arbitrary locations. >> > > Yes > Hi, David! Thank you for the feedback... > Personally I'd prefer MediWiki markup - as that's where the content is - >> but whatever :) Is it possible to include a JavaScript based skin switcher >> - that way you could have a choice of markups - given someone writing a >> skin with an embedded parser? >> > Even one step further: a given site can use multiple renderers as long as it has a way of distinguishing wiki pages by type (e.g. by extension, naming convention, or some marker tag in the first few bytes). e.g. it could use MediWiki + Google Code + Markdown, and even link between them, as long as the site implements the code to handle the intra-page links (it's not as hard as it sounds - a few lines of jquery normally does the job). e.g. the GoCo renderer post-processes the parser-generated links with: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/fwiki/index.cgi/artifact/754a19ba9a0dde07e75dec59f1ad454cc2d5f5d7?ln=19-58 > While we could argue forever about the down-side of the non-googlability >> of client-side-rendered wikis, i think it is important that that the >> documentation for the JSON API be served via the JSON API, if for no other >> reason than having it as the canonical demonstration app. > > > Yes - a static dump with links to the live wiki could help? > Interestingly, i came to the same conclusion last night. It wouldn't be much work to dump generated copies. PhantomJS (or similar) could be used to set up a generator for this purpose. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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