On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon(a)prwatch.org> wrote:
Unfortunately, the WikityWidget only supports the
CamelCase link
style, and I think Wikipedia's syntax is much more powerful and
flexible.
It would be great if someone could develop a WikityWidget-like tool
that supports the Wikipedia syntax. I've been using a local
installation of MediaWiki on my laptop to keep various notes for my
personal use, but it would be easier to have the same functionality
available on my dashboard. Also, it would help to further popularize
the Wikipedia syntax, which I'd like to see become the basis for a
standard wiki syntax even outside of MediaWiki.
No kidding. I find myself taking notes in text editors and separating
new sections with =='s and bolding things with apostrophes. I think if
someone made a robust and simple personal database creator of this
sort -- which one could also store files in and categorically index --
it would be a great boon to us all.
I wonder how hard it would be? The most difficult time would be
putting something together that did a good job of blending the coding
and viewing aspects of it -- in a personal environment I think a
program that made you "submit" a form would be tedious. You could get
around it with simple tabs, I suppose, but it would be even more
amazing if one could both apply and code in Wiki syntax in realtime.
Oh, but to dream...
FF