[pmwiki-users] (:noaction:)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 09:09:34AM +0000, Hans wrote:
> Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 10:49:16 PM, Patrick wrote:
> 
> >> > The (:noaction:) directive isn't intended to eliminate
> >> > the actions at the bottom of the page -- those come from the
> >> > skin.  The only way to eliminate those is to modify the
> >> > skin or to add a CSS property that hides them.
> >> 
> >> I have searched pmwiki.org and could not any explanation for
> >> (:noaction:), then what is it supposed to do?
> 
> > It simply turns off the section of the skin marked by
> > <!--PageActionFmt--> .  In the pmwiki skin, this turns
> > off the display of the actions at the top-right of
> > the page (other skins may locate the actions in other
> > locations).
> 
> From a users point of view I think it is reasonable to expect
> (:noaction:) to hide/turn off all action links on a page, both
> at the top and the foot. I think the pmwiki default skin makes only
> half a job of this, and it would be good to extend this to do it
> whole, by hiding the actions in the foot as well.

I agree, but I'm not sure it's a big enough issue to make us
want to switch things around at this point.

Thanks,

Pm