Re: Some newbie questions

Hi, we are now using an early alpha version of SmallWiki 2 in the Advanced Design Lecture here at the University of Bern. The students are working on different parts of SmallWiki and we try to improve the engine with their feedback. If you like to satisfy your curiosity I suggest that you browser the lecture homepage [1], download the SmallWiki 2 image [2] and browse the presentation slides [3]. Note that big and important parts, like the security and persistence, are not yet fished! [1] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/AdvancedLabs/index.html [2] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/AdvancedLabs/swimages/sw2.zip [3] http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smallwiki/slides/intro.pdf Yes, I moved the main development branch to Squeak, read about this decision in the mailing list archive. As you probably noticed, SmallWiki 2 is described in itself. This means that there are meta-models [3] for most parts of the wiki. I'm currently working on an improved model of the layout engine. The idea would be that a wiki is composed from different primitive Seaside components, e.g. to display the menu, the login status, the current path and the actual contents. In SmallWiki 1 we had the templates that were composed statically, in SmallWiki 2 I want to use a meta-document to describe the look of a page: *+Heading+* | *+Menu+* | *+Path+* | *+Search+* | *+Contents+* Powered by *SmallWiki* Heading, Menu, Path and Search are all links to primitive Seaside components, the + means that they will be embedded and not linked into the resulting page. Contents is the embedded document. So my rendering visitor will walk over this meta-document and build the whole web-page. When reaching the 'contents' it will jump from the meta-level to the document level of the page currently displayed. Does this all make sense? Any ideas where to put that meta-document information? I am currently not quite sure where to store it ... Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch