I recently noticed that several wiki engines have implemented a simple but convenient feature, a little JavaScript in the "body" tag of the generated pages that may look like this:
ondblclick="document.location='http://www.wakkawiki.com/WakkaIntro/edit';"
What this means is that you can edit the page by simply double clicking its contents. Go to http://www.wakkawiki.com/WakkaIntro to see it in action. I have tested it in Mozilla and IE, but it probably works in all reasonably modern JavaScript-implementing browsers. It should be silently ignored if the browser is JavaScript incapable.
I don't know if this behavior should be made the default, but it would certainly be nice to have it as an option. What do you think?
Regards,
Erik
What this means is that you can edit the page by simply double
clicking its
contents.
I like it. It should be useful especially when you are reading long pages and find something to correct.
Let's keep those programmers busy! :-)
I don't know if this behavior should be made the default, but it would certainly be nice to have it as an option. What do you think?
Why not make it default? A few more people will find out that it is possible to edit articles - by accident :-)
On the other hand, double-clicking is used for marking a word, so maybe better make it just an option?
Kurt
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