May
20
2009
A Wiki that looks like a Blog, or a Blog that behaves like a Wiki ?
Is it your case too ? It seems that I actually need something in the middle between blog and wiki features: as soon as I had started using DokuWiki, I checked out how I could insert a blog area, and I had hardly started using a blog (DotClear for example or hosted blogs) that I wanted to insert static editable topic pages, just like wiki articles.In the end, my ISP decided for me: PHP is so slow on Free.fr, I finally switched back to... pure HTML/CSS with absolutely no PHP, Javascript, AJAX or any other goodie. I am quite proud of the result: would you believe this is hand-made HTML ?
Of course, some might argue the editing might now become more complicated - compared to a wiki. Yes and no: with DokuWiki on Free.fr, there were several bugs:
- the login phase was very slow. Sometimes it was just quicker to upload the new page on the FTP server
- when hitting the save button, the new page would not display (blank page). I'd need to specifically re-request the page to view the new modifications
