Friday, May 26, 2006
A busy week
It has been quite a busy week with the project so I had very little time to blog. But just to summarize the work:
The project rapidly moves towards the feature-complete preview. This week I have implemented per-page discussions, improved attachments handling (i.e. file moving, renaming etc.), better "my account" handling and site configuration. The templates system is almost polished (i.e. different starting templates for new pages). Autocomplete widget has been placed in several places to improve text input.
What is quite innovative at this point is the wiki editor itself. After some considerations I have decided to keep away from all the WYSIWYG inventions and concentrate on building an editor around "just" the textarea element. Well, a "bit" overloaded textarea with "code assistant" that closes block-level tags, helps with list handling, inserts bold, italic etc.
At the moment almost all the syntax is available from the toolbar. Several wizards are also available (e.g. image wizard that allows flickr image insertion, URL validation, positioning etc... or equation reference wizard that looks for all labeled equations in the text).
Much has been done and clearly one can see the end.
I have also fixed a bug in yahoo ui library and implemented a new feature too. I hope this will find its place in the next release. The details are here and here. I am really glad the development of wikidot has a time coincidence with the releases of the yahoo ui library. A great tool that saves a lot of time.
During the last meeting I have presented the project to a few friends from the Torun Linux User Group. Well, they did like it ;-)
One last thing: there is a conference devoted to Web 2.0 (whatever this is) in Warsaw I will most likely attend looking for investment possibilities.
http://firma.biznesnet.pl/view/287
Anyone to meet there?
regards - michal
The project rapidly moves towards the feature-complete preview. This week I have implemented per-page discussions, improved attachments handling (i.e. file moving, renaming etc.), better "my account" handling and site configuration. The templates system is almost polished (i.e. different starting templates for new pages). Autocomplete widget has been placed in several places to improve text input.
What is quite innovative at this point is the wiki editor itself. After some considerations I have decided to keep away from all the WYSIWYG inventions and concentrate on building an editor around "just" the textarea element. Well, a "bit" overloaded textarea with "code assistant" that closes block-level tags, helps with list handling, inserts bold, italic etc.
At the moment almost all the syntax is available from the toolbar. Several wizards are also available (e.g. image wizard that allows flickr image insertion, URL validation, positioning etc... or equation reference wizard that looks for all labeled equations in the text).
Much has been done and clearly one can see the end.
I have also fixed a bug in yahoo ui library and implemented a new feature too. I hope this will find its place in the next release. The details are here and here. I am really glad the development of wikidot has a time coincidence with the releases of the yahoo ui library. A great tool that saves a lot of time.
During the last meeting I have presented the project to a few friends from the Torun Linux User Group. Well, they did like it ;-)
One last thing: there is a conference devoted to Web 2.0 (whatever this is) in Warsaw I will most likely attend looking for investment possibilities.
http://firma.biznesnet.pl/view/287
Anyone to meet there?
regards - michal
