On May 19, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dennis Brown wrote:
If we all make an effort to fix stuff or add examples to the web
notes, perhaps everyone, even those not on this list will benefit.
Hmmmm - I think I'd agree with Phil Davis from an earlier thread on
the topic of Web Notes - without someone watching over the content,
you have to be careful how much you trust Web Notes written by
random, unidentified people. And of course, there's no way to know
whether anything you put up there will remain there, since anyone
can edit it later.
You bring up a good point. Contributors should put their name or
email into their notes. Deleting/editing someone else's notes should
require some sort of password given to trusted contributors.
The thing that would really make the web notes shine, is if the
Icon would change to a wiggly one, or some other way of grabbing
your attention if a web note is available. I am sure it would be
easy to add a script to the doc stack that after finding a topic,
it would (if you have a web connection) check to see if the web
note is not empty and do something noticeable. Unfortunately I
am not experienced enough to make that change. Anyone out there
know how to do this?
The problem is that there's no way to tell if there is a Web Note
without doing the HTTP "get" - and once you've got the web page,
you might as well just display it - so you might as well just turn
on "Display Web Notes". There might be some value in changing an
icon, for the sake of those where the doc page is more than one
screen long, and it's easy to miss the web note.
I tried this turn on "Display Web Notes", but the note window does
not get refreshed when I go to a new entry. I have to close it and
open it again to get the current note.
What I've been looking at is extracting all the Web Notes - easy to
do, but pretty slow ..... and demonstrates the need for someone to
monitor what text gets entered there. I'll put the stack up on
RevOnline when it's done - but in the meantime, all the Web Notes
from the Dictionary can be found at
http://www.tweedly.net/RunRev/webnotes-dictionary.html
Pitiful few notes added so far. It seems that Phil Davis is the
major contributor.
Obviously this could be a more powerful feature with just a few
improvements. It might even be nice to have pointers to rev list
discussion posts about an item, or note bug numbers etc.
Dennis
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