[WikiEN-l] Indywiki, a visual browser for Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 08:20:29 UTC 2009


2009/8/17 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:

> I don't get why there is any need for a dedicated Wikipedia browser.
> All we need is better skins, or possibly a better (web-side)
> interface. There have been a couple of attempts at dedicated browsers,
> but do any of them do anything that the right AJAX-y web client
> couldn't?


Presumably because the guy could, and felt like it :-)

AJAX requires server coding as well.

I thought it was an interesting presentation of Wikipedia information.
This sort of thing is always worth a look, for ideas even if not for
daily use.


- d.



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