On Jul 19, 1:39 pm, "Christopher Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/19/07, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I used my desktop for finding information about developing for the > > iPhone ... and then test on the iPhone. > > > There is so much information coming out that I believe if would be > > better to have the code (mediawiki) that would help with managing the > > wiki and not worry about iPhonifying it until things settle down in a > > few months. > > > Do people really use their iPhones for staying currrent on the issues > > in iPhoneWebDev enough that a lot of effort should be justified now to > > keep the wiki iPhone friendly? (Of course, my wife is making me go to > > a party tomorrow night and I pretty sure I can sneak some iPhone time > > in checking .....) > > I have to admit I'm really torn. > > If mediawiki was easy to modify for the iPhone then I'd say use it > just because it is the broadest deployed wiki. However, we have some > experience modifying it for use with SynchroEdit.com (we added > same-time editing of wiki pages), and it can be quite clunky to > modify. > > W2 is very simple and elegant right now, but after my brief evaluation > needs a lot of work before it can be used by us. Accounts, recent > changes, version control, locking, etc. However, with it we have the > opportunity to deal with very specific things, from things like UI, to > things like that most wiki syntax is very difficult to use on iPhone. > > This is what we've written up so far about w2 > athttp://www.iphonewebdev.com/wiki/index.php/Evaluation%20Notes > > * No login. This will be required to make things like spam protection > and recent changes to work. -- Christopher Allen > > * There doesn't seem to be collision detection to prevent two people > from editing the same page. -- Christopher Allen > > * Markdown syntax is actually pretty nice, makes aesthetically clean > and readable raw text, as opposed to the typical wiki syntax. Of > course, if you are used to a different wiki it may be a problem. -- > Christopher Allen > > * No revision control (afaict). -- Kalle Alm > > * Page URLs are clunky. -- Christopher Allen > > * Viewing on iPhone works great in portrait. -- Christopher Allen > > * Viewing in landscape is poor. -- Christopher Allen > > * Editing in portrait is clunky because of scaling during editing. May > want to use some tricks from iLace Chat. -- Christopher Allen > > * Wiki syntax on iPhone is a pain -- most of the characters are TWO > keyboard panes away (i.e. click ".?123" button, then click "#+=" > button, then click wiki syntax character). It may be worthwhile to > come up with a wiki syntax that only uses characters from the first > symbol keyboard. -- Christopher Allen > > * After editing, the URL is not the name of the page. -- Christopher > Allen ** (fixed this in the code -- Kalle Alm) > > -- Christopher Allen I've used mediawiki on the iPhone and while it is hardly iPhone optimized, it is iPhone compatible and quite usable (at least as usable as this google groups site and no one seems to have a problem posting here). Furthermore, editing skins should be a fairly straightforward process of changing the CSS stylesheet to make sections thinner and controls larger, I just don't have the time personally (perhaps later this week). If someone does want to hack something together I'm more than happy to put it up at http://www.kudit.com/wiki/ -Ben (from my iPhone) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
