Re: Meta-Descriptions - smallwiki

9 Aug 2004

Hi Frédéric,

yes there is a meta-description in SmallWiki 2. Actually it is used on 
Command-Objects only, to be able to build and render GUIs 
automatically. I think this will make it much simpler to build GUIs for 
different front-ends, e.g like the Seaside and the Trippy interface 
that I'm currently playing with.

I don't know how far to continue the idea of having meta-descriptions. 
Of course they could be added to all the objects in the wiki like the 
server, the structures, the document-entities, the properties itself, 
etc. but I don't know if they are of big use there.

I'm currently just playing with that stuff and there is nothing very 
useful yet. However - as always - I'm looking for comments, ideas and 
contributions from everybody.

Cheers,
Lukas

On Aug 9, 2004, at 13:38, f.bulcka(a)alemtid.asso.fr wrote:

...
  Hi,
   in SmallWiki2, I saw that you add some kind of metadescription which
 seem to be near the idea of propertyDescription in SmallWiki1 (an
 interface between the wiki and the administrator and/or programmer). 
 You
 also have some kind of 'component' like brokenlinks and everything.

   Broken is a property of a link (a kind of metadescription in 
 smallwiki2
 ? ) but should we have something like properties of the server or of 
 the
 site (i do know that they are not wikiItems but anyway). Then
 BrokenLinks would be a property of the site.

 In the same kind of idea, you would have a computed property that could
 give you all the pages that can be modified by a guy.

  I mean, this is some kind of global information, that could be easily
 implemented as "property" of the server or something like this.

 What s your opinion ?

 Fred

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Lukas Renggli
http://renggli.freezope.org