[pmwiki-users] Re: Blog proposal

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Dec 15 15:33:54 CST 2005


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:14:17PM -0500, Martin Fick wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > >   This still leaves the issue of marking up page which is
> > > apart of more than one trail.  Have there been any thoughts
> > > about either including DynamicWikiTrails for this, or some
> > > other suggestion on how to do this nicely?
> > 
> > You mean besides having multiple trail markups on the page?
> > (This is my preferred solution.)
> 
>   Well that works nicely in some cases.  The disadvantage,
> of course, being that a page author needs to know which
> trails his page is going to be on when authoring his page. 
> This seems less likely when you start making trails eaily
> aggregated such as in the example above.  
> 
>   The aggregating author will probably not be the author of
> the individual pages and it seems like a pretty heavy burden
> on an aggregator to have to edit every page on his trail,
> especially since his trail will be larger than the
> individual trails he is aggregating.

Makes sense.  At any rate, DynamicTrails can help with some
of this, and I suspect the longer-term solution will be to
have a {$trail} property that comes from the url or session
that tells us what trail the browser is currently "on".

Pm




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