On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Guy Van den Broeck guyvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I want to get some feedback on a possible Summer of Code project proposal. For last year's GSoC I created an HTML diffing library for Daisy CMS. The algorithm has proven to work well and I'm thinking of porting it to mediawiki.
What the algorithm does is take the source of 2 pages and merge them to visualize the diff. The code I have already does something like this: http://users.pandora.be/guyvdb/wikipediadiff.jpg
Is this a feasible project for wikimedia? I'm personally not very impressed with the current "diff pages". I think a visual diff would bring that part of mediawiki up to par with the rest of the software.
It would be a neat feature to add along with the normal diff (imo).. how fast is that algorithm in mw compared to the normal diff?
It is fast enough in daisy afaics:
http://cocoondev.org/daisy/index/version/34/diff?otherVersion=36