SqueakSource feature request: project description (was: RE: How to point SqueakMap to SqueakSource)

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Fri Apr 30 10:58:01 UTC 2004


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2004, at 1:15 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ah, OK. Yes, I see it wasn't actually SqueakSource's fault at all :)
> >
> > Still, perhaps it would be nice for the project description to use
> > (Small)Wiki markup? Then we could use bulleted lists and such, and the 
> > wiki
> > markup would get converted to proper XHTML without humans fussing about
> > matching tags and all that.
> 
> This would be useful for, eg, SmallBlog as well.  Lukas, maybe we could 
> slim down TinyWiki even further so that it was just a pair of Seaside 
> components (or, even better, methods on WAHtmlRenderer) - one which 
> produced a textarea where people could edit SmallWiki parse trees, and 
> one which displayed them as HTML.  I suppose we'd also have to provide 
> this second method with a block for resolving links, but the interface 
> could be extremely simple...

That is exactly how it works in SM etc. Not many know this of course but
the description in SM can use full Swiki syntax, including "smart links"
to other packages, people etc.

I am using my old trustworthy "Swiki-syntax-hack" of course, and not
Smallwiki.

> Avi

regards, Göran



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