- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:25:16 -0500
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Sander, On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > At 20:33 -0400 UTC, on 2007-08-14, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > >> i too, wanted to avoid bloat on the main issues page > > OK, that's three of us. We can't discuss every detail with > everyone. It's a > wiki. So I've moved the Justifications for Differences to > individual pages. > If people hate it they can move it back :) (I realise I may have > gone 'too > far' by splitting the justifications into several pages now. But I > couldn't > figure out an elegant way to have it all inn one page and still > logically > likn to it from the homepage.) > > But we probably need to be careful. At a certain point everything > may have > become so interlinked that moving one thing can break 'everything'. > (I for > one have been posting links to fragment identifiers, pointing to > specific > points in a page.) > I agree with what you're saying here. The TOC should be handled automatically. Perhaps the migration to MediaWiki would help with that (my only concern about MediaWik has been addressed by Gregory's suggestion that a switch can be thrown to allow pure HTML markup on top of the wiki markup). However, perhaps its a bit mature to move this material to another page. Right now, I think our biggest priority on the wiki is in providing the use-cases and problem statements to support these changes to HTML. In that sense, there is really no difference between the sections you moved and the ones that remain: except the ones that remain have had more work done on them. I think once we move to MediaWiki — if we have all the settings right and the proper wikipedia-used extensions installed — we can make use of categories to generate automatic subject indices. Each page will automatically generate its own TOC (which also makes creating fragment identifier links elsewhere easier). Editing a single section will be easier. And son on. So perhaps we can wait for DanC to migrate the material to the new wiki before we make such significant changes. Eventually, we can move all of the use-cases/problem-statements to their own separate page: including the ones now called "Justification for Differences". Take care, Rob
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