From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T13:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: BlueCloth on Instiki (was Re: [ANN] BlueCloth 0.0.2 (beta))

On Saturday, April 17, 2004, 2:24:10 PM, Florian wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> Nice requests. I just couldn't resist commenting on some of them. :)

>> A list, on each page, of all the pages that link to it.

> Already available AFAIK.

Ah good.  I'm a bit behind the curve.


>> Keywords.  Give each page arbitrary keywords to enable "browsing by
>> keyword".  When you add a keyword to a page, make it selectable from a
>> drop-down list of all existing keywords to make it easier.  Of course
>> new ones can be added.

> This is usually done by just adding links to Category pages on other
> Wikis. (You'll get the "pages that link to this category page" list.)

Yeah, but I think this should become a first-class feature.


>> A quick search feature (I doubt this is possible in a web app),
>> whereby *as you are entering* the search term, you are given a visual
>> cue as to how many nodes match it so far.  This is a Info Select's
>> only killer feature.

> Hm, this would be more or less possible with JavaScript and an embedded
> <iframe>, but I doubt that it would be responsive enough. (It will have
> to fetch a new page after every 2-3 new letters or so.)

Oh well, more possible than I thought, but yeah -- responsiveness is
king.

Gavin