Re: Wikis

From: Shaun Ellis <shaune_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:30:21 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
These wikis use Git as their backend for tracking changes.  Kinda cool:

https://github.com/al3x/git-wiki

http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit/

-Shaun

On 7/25/12 9:34 PM, Nate Vack wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Cary Gordon <listuser_at_chillco.com> wrote:
>> WYSIWYG editors are the bane of my existence.
>
> Well... it depends on what you want. If you want clean, valid HTML,
> then yes -- WYSIWYG editors are unholy abominations unleashed upon the
> earth.
>
> If you want documents to look mostly closely like the author intended,
> they're not so bad. Occasionally we need to do a "paste it into
> Notepad and then back" maneuver, but it's rare.
>
> Sometimes people do really, really strange things like pasting an
> entire web page or Word document into the Wiki editor. For extra fun,
> paste an entire wiki editor into the wiki editor. That's its own
> meta-trip.
>
> But the worst case response tends to be "How the heck did you do that?
> Let's revert that, shall we?"
>
> -n
>

-- 
Shaun D. Ellis
Digital Library Interface Developer
Firestone Library, Princeton University
voice: 609.258.1698 | shaune_at_princeton.edu
Received on Thu Jul 26 2012 - 09:31:47 EDT