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Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 12:15 AM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #5

robbs wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A pull request would edit a page, I think.

But that doesn't make it a wiki.

Au contraire, I think GitHub's editing features are actually close enough to make a wiki.

Though... you might as well just use GitHub's Wiki...

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by dalek2point3 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 12:46 AM UTC

is it possible to get pretty URLs? that might be the one thing that might stop me from using this -- this is exactly what i have been looking for!

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by ahmett » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 12:58 AM UTC

And how is the crawling of search bots handled? Does Google render this into HTML and interpret the hyperlinks and try to crawl deeper pages as well?

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by jason_slack » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 1:21 AM UTC

This is interesting. It would allow me to make quick work of all the markdown files I have to get them alive. +1.

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by balls187 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 1:55 AM UTC

When I reload the page in Firefox 30, I first see the non-styled content, which is a bit jarring.

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by csirac2 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 3:35 AM UTC

That's really cool! It reminded me of Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki, which is mostly client-side too; although it normally uses sinatra, there's an arduino port and I seem to recall an experimental server implemented using only apache conf hacks too.

https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by Pitarou » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 4:24 AM UTC

AFAICT, this entirely runs on the client. The server just serves some static web pages. Presumably, if you save the static HTML / js / css files onto your laptop, you could use the wiki when you're offline.

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by wise_young_man » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 4:36 AM UTC

This is similar to what we are building at UserDeck. We call it Guides and it is a knowledge base widget that embeds inline into any page of a website. It is all Javascript and customizable on the client side with layouts and components which have options which let you change things like a sidebar component to the right side instead of the left.

Any team member can collaborate and edit articles live on the site and we are considering adding wiki type functionality if people are interested.

You can learn more at http://userdeck.com/guides.

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by cmelbye » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 5:47 AM UTC

evolve2k wrote: post #10

TLDR; Not actually a wiki. This is a nice front end js component that live autocompiles markdown into HTML. IMHO to be a wiki it would need to manage user editing and version control.

Seems like hosting it on GitHub Pages would accomplish that.

Re: MDwiki – Markdown based wiki done 100% on the client via JavaScript

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Post by Dynalon » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:50 AM UTC

ahmett wrote: post #13

And how is the crawling of search bots handled? Does Google render this into HTML and interpret the hyperlinks and try to crawl deeper pages as well?

Crawling is an issue. But if you google for mdwiki, first result will be the projects website which IS crawled. I think this is undocumented by google, but they do fetch ajax content. But you can not do professional SEO with frontend-only solutions.