From: joey Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:19:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: thoughts X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/549579ae98ef172c9c46beff0e3f2a2fb894a3eb?ds=sidebyside thoughts --- diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index b4f38ee51..dc7fb14a7 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -3,10 +3,20 @@ ikiwiki, both pro and con, anything that didn't work, ideas, or whatever. Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the -[[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. +[[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. ---- +# ACL + How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is something, that I think is very valuable. + +> ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages +> can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That +> could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an +> overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and +> I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]] + +---- diff --git a/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn b/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..293cd66b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/infoboxes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# thoughts on infoboxes + +I was thinking about adding a [[preprocessordirective]] to make it easy to +add an info box. Something like: + + \[[infobox "text here"]] + +But it seems it would be better if multi-line text could be put inside, +maybe expanding the syntax a bit: + + \[[infobox " + text here + and here + etc. + "]] + +This would just wrap the text up in a span element that was styled to float +to the right, with a border, the way info boxes do on some wikis. + +However, as I thought about it some more, I realized that this would be +just as easy to type: + + + text here + + +Why invent new syntax, after all? I see no reason to for something this +simple. + +However, maybe in the more complex case, this would be useful. If the +infobox filled in a kind of template: + + \[[infobox type=person name="Joey Hess" email=joey@kitenet.net url="http://kitenet.net/~joey/" description=" + Joey is the author of ikiwiki and some other stuff. *Yay*! + "]] + +That might be a lot more useful. Or here's one to use to describe ikiwiki's +own plugins: + + \[[infobox type=plugin name="sidebar" author="Tuomo Valkonen" core=no]] + +This would expand by filling out the template page, which would be +infobox/person or infobox/plugin, or whatever, and would have some syntax +(possibly HTML::Template, if it's secure) for testing for values and +embedding variables. Of course it would register a dependency on its +template so changes to the template update all the pages. + +(Since it's a preprocessor directive, the big multiline blocks of text can +mix markdown (or whatever) with html, wikilinks, etc, in a natural way, +which is nice..)