I agree with the proposal, having looked at PmWiki and being a long time user of inline diff<div>Simon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2010 12:00, ABClf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:languefrancaise@gmail.com">languefrancaise@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Can't say more ;)<br>
+2<br>
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Gilles<br>
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2010/2/18 DaveG <<a href="mailto:pmwiki@solidgone.com">pmwiki@solidgone.com</a>>:<br>
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> On 2/17/2010 6:34 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:<br>
>> Hello. I'd like to request some comments from the community about two changes<br>
>> of the default layout in a page history.<br>
>><br>
>> When authors click on the "History" link, they see the differences between<br>
>> page versions with mostly[1] rendered output, ie. '''bold''' is rendered as<br>
>> bold text, a line starting with "!!" is rendered as a heading, [[#anchors]]<br>
>> are not visible, etc.<br>
>><br>
>> To see the differences in the source-wiki-text, authors need to click on the<br>
>> link "Show changes to markup". It shows then the complete changes in plain<br>
>> text.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd like to read your comments on changing the default page history to show<br>
>> the changes on the source-wiki-text instead of the rendered HTML.<br>
>><br>
>> There will of course be an easy way to revert to the previous way, by editing<br>
>> config.php, or by clicking on the link "Show changes to output".<br>
>><br>
>> I believe authors understand wiki markup and there is no problem for them to<br>
>> look at the source changes -- and it is actually better/easier to understand<br>
>> what happened (and an opportunity to practice for unfrequent editors). Other<br>
>> wiki engines (Mediawiki/Wikipedia) show only changes to the source-text.<br>
>><br>
>> My second question is about the new word-level difference highlighting --<br>
>> should it be enabled by default?<br>
>><br>
>> Admins could of course switch back to plain text, by editing config.php.<br>
>><br>
>> Now it isn't default enabled, and an admin needs to edit config.php. To me,<br>
>> word-level diffs are absolutely valuable[2] and an awesome help when reviewing<br>
>> page changes. I don't see any good reason *not* to enable this for most wikis,<br>
>> but I'd like to know what people from the community think.<br>
>><br>
>> It should be noted that word-level diff highlighting can only work in "source<br>
>> mode", not in rendered HTML output, that's why I'm asking the first question.<br>
> I think both changes are good ideas. I rarely find the default HTML view<br>
> useful, and usually switch to PmWiki view. I also enable InlineDiff on<br>
> all my wikis, as this is considerably more useful than the old PmWiki way.<br>
><br>
> I guess the real question is why would we *not* do this? I'm not really<br>
> seeing any downside.<br>
><br>
> ~ ~ Dave<br>
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