[Seaside] New Gardner version

[Avi Bryant]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Cees de Groot wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:41, Julian Fitzell wrote:
> > I don't think Seaside's creating a new session on every redirect
> >
> Re sessions: one thing that occurred to me is that the current
> sessionful URL sits in the way of 'visited link coloring' when people
> return to a Gardner Wiki. Is it doable to stash the session id in a
> cookie so that when creating a new session, this id is checked and
> re-used? What would be the drawbacks here?

There was an option to do this at some point.  The two main drawbacks
were:
- increased code complexity
- no way for a user to have multiple concurrent sessions

The latter reason would stop me from ever using the feature.  Given that,
the former reason caused me to strip out the code.  However, it really
shouldn't be that hard to put it back in if you really want it.

> Furthermore, I'm thinking about 'pop-up' links, which is useful for
> definitions. So instead of writing *Term*, you'd write something like
> *popup:Term* (or, more generally, with some syntax like
> *Term{prop1=value1,...}*, (*Term{mode=popup}*') which would show the
> Wiki page in a popup.

Hey Derek - what ever happened to your experiments with popup links?

> With this, I hope to provide navigational guidance through the wiki for
> various visitor groups (potential customers, potential employees, ...).
> The idea of the whole website is to entice visitors into reading the
> whole story piecemeal - short pages and excellent navigation are my
> strategy to let people spend much more time than they were originally
> planning on my site ;-).

I actually noticed exactly that effect when I first looked at it... (in
its "chaops" incarnation).