[Pmwiki-users] RE: Test of page drafts

Kass Lloyd kasslloyd
Tue Jul 20 20:54:37 CDT 2004


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:45:28 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:21:58PM -0400, Kass Lloyd wrote:

> Even in PmWiki 1.0 icons are an optional feature that can be turned
> on or off.  It's just that the PmWiki distribution doesn't make any
> pretenses about supplying appropriate icons, under the assumption that
> it's more appropriate to let skins authors choose appropriate icons.
> To change links to use icons, one simply sets new values for
> $WikiPageCreateFmt, $WikiPageExistsFmt, $UrlLinkFmt, etc.
> 
> Pm
> 

I didn't know this, but PmWiki dosn't come with default icons already
in the package? Is it a future possiblity to have this already in the
package, or a skin in the distro that has icons. I think if the goal
is to make PmWiki as user friendly as possible for people who are not
very knowledgeable about html or websites, then having Icons would
make links more understandable. An icon is a bit more visual then a ?
link, and would help people who are new to wikis know whats going on
easier.

I'm just rambleing.. :D but.. a "?" link to create a new page is less
intuitive then an icon or other visual indicator that it is a link
that hasn't been made yet. In Wikipedia they use blue underlined links
for regular links to pages or outside, and red text underlined for
wiki links that hasn't been made yet. Its a little more visual and it
dosn't interupt the current text.

An average user without knowledge of a wiki will see? a sentence? with
these question marks? on various words. It breaks up the sentence and
makes it more difficult to read. By useing an icon or different color
for the unmade wiki page link you don't intrupt the natural flow of
the sentence.

My thoughts on that. :D



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