[pmwiki-users] Input recipe

[Martin Fick]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:25:56PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:30:59AM -0400, Martin Fick wrote:
> > 
> >   While the above two rules might be consistent, they do no
> > considerably shorten the syntax in all cases therfore the 
> > (:input...:) syntax would probably still be clearer.  
> 
> I agree, at least for the moment.  I've gone ahead and
> thrown together a sample recipe for this at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Forms.  It's *very*
> preliminary and needs a lot of work, but it gives an idea 
> of the direction in which I think forms handling (at least
> for PmWiki internals) will go.


Hmm, the main objection I still have is that is looks an
awfull lot like straight HTML.  While it might be safer
than enablehtml, it doesn't look much better and I don't
know that it would make sense to non-html aware people.

While it is a step better, I'm not convinced it's a large
step better.  Wikis provide great shorthand notations for
even simple things like <h1> </h1>, but alos make longer
complicated things likes links MUCH easier.  This seems
like the reason for using a wiki for this and I really hope
we could make some very nice shorthands for this.

Maybe (:input :) is the power solution like (:table) but we
create simple shorthand form solutions also?  How could we 
use WikiForms as a starting place (bu only as a front end)?
It has a very 'wiki like' syntax. :)


-Martin