On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:24:06 +0100, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it would be better just to produce a special bot-friendly interface, instead (limitable to registered bot accounts); one that doesn't have to wait for and parse HTML responses, thus slowing down both it and the website...
That sounds like a really good idea.
I was talking with Tim Starling on IRC briefly last night about maybe moving some of the parsing code out into Javascript so that the client could do some of the work.
An interface for viewing articles as unparsed wikicode (and minus the surrounding page framework, so it could all go in an IFRAME, like how Epoz and FCKedit work) would be useful for both a Javascript parser and a bot interface.
I assume there are routines for outputting articles this way anyway, since something needs to populate the <textarea> fields when editing.
/off to go pick through code
-Bill Clark