On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:56:42PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/28/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
The fact that lifting a graf with references and copying it to another article becomes a major hassle.
The problem as *I* see it is that the whitespace necessary to make the wikitext readable screws with the article vspace.
That's part of the problem, but not all of it.
You know, what would really be ideal (in dreamland) would be a column of references next to the edit box. You would type <ref name="foo" /> and the instant you'd closed the >, you'd have a new entry in the list to the right, just begging you to give it some details. The list would probably be stored at the bottom of the article, but you wouldn't even care. You'd always edit it directly in that list. And you could do neat things like collapsing two references together, highlighting any references which were no longer referred to in the text etc...
This just keeps converging on Christiaan(?)'s XML in the DBMS approach -- once the backend is tractable, editors in front can be as smart as they like.
It occurs to me that diffing XML wouldn't be pretty.
Cheers, -- jra