On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:24:06 +0100, Rowan Collins
<rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe it would be better just to produce a special
bot-friendly interface,
instead (limitable to registered bot accounts); one that doesn't have to wait
for and parse HTML responses, thus slowing down both it and the website...
That sounds like a really good idea.
I was talking with Tim Starling on IRC briefly last night about maybe
moving some of the parsing code out into Javascript so that the client
could do some of the work.
An interface for viewing articles as unparsed wikicode (and minus the
surrounding page framework, so it could all go in an IFRAME, like how
Epoz and FCKedit work) would be useful for both a Javascript parser
and a bot interface.
I assume there are routines for outputting articles this way anyway,
since something needs to populate the <textarea> fields when editing.
/off to go pick through code
-Bill Clark