From 0017d477fca613825981de879b2bd219bef177c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:45:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] web commit by http://adam.shand.net/ --- ...pporting_comments_via_disussion_pages.mdwn | 31 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/supporting_comments_via_disussion_pages.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/supporting_comments_via_disussion_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/supporting_comments_via_disussion_pages.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4f2096594 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/supporting_comments_via_disussion_pages.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +I would love to see more traditional support for comments in ikiwiki. One way would be to structure data on the discussion page in such a way that a "comment" plugin could parse it and yet the discussion page would still be a valid and usable wiki page. + +For example if the discussion page looked like this: + + # Subject of First Comment + Posted by [Adam Shand](http://adam.shand.net/) at 10:34PM on 14/04/2007 + + Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi consectetuer nunc quis + magna. Etiam non est eget sapien vulputate varius. Vivamus magna. Sed justo. Donec + pellentesque ultrices urna. + + # Subject of the Second Comment + Posted by [Foo Bar](http://foobar.net/) at 11:41PM on 14/04/2007 + + Quisque lacinia, lorem eget ornare facilisis, enim eros iaculis felis, id volutpat nibh + mauris ut felis. Vestibulum risus nibh, adipiscing volutpat, volutpat et, lacinia ut, + pede. Maecenas dolor. Vivamus feugiat volutpat ligula. + +Each header marks the start of a new comment and the line immediately following is the comments meta data (author, email/url, datestamp). Hopefully you could structure it in such a way that the scope + +This would allow: + + * A comment plugin to render the comments in "traditional blog" format . + * Possibly even support nesting comments by the header level? + * A comment plugin to create a form at the bottom of the page for people to add comments in the appropriate format to the discussion page + * Still remain usable and readable by people who work via svn. + * When there is ACL support you could mark the discussion page as read only so it could only be updated by the comment plugin (if that's what you wanted) + +Is this simple enough to be sensible? + +-- [[AdamShand]] \ No newline at end of file -- 2.26.2