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Tchalvak marked one of Vu Nguyen's replies in PBwiki as useful. Vu Nguyen replied to the problem "edit page button stops being clickable after too much mouseovering!".

Tchalvak replied on May 29, 2008 19:18 to the problem "Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?" in PBwiki:

The "guest" email and password can simply be published in the "this will be seen on the logon page" textbox of the pbwiki settings, so no-one has to remember it.

Annoyingly this does require us (pbwiki creators) to go to an outside system and create a completely separate email address to deal with the new constraints that have been added to the pbwiki login system, instead of having an option within pbwiki to add a guest login.

Tchalvak replied on March 27, 2008 20:50 to the idea "Could we get a method to skip viewing the page and go straight to editing content or source, to avoid errant code that might make editing hard, like a page redirect?" in PBwiki:

Hah, fair enough, that'll do as a workaround, at least for the redirection.

Tchalvak replied on March 26, 2008 02:20 to the question "Please suggest better workflow/content management for these kinds of editing/page management scenarios: 1. most 2. all content from the Front Page (or other) page must be moved to a different page in pbwiki." in PBwiki:

You can just tag the page "template", go to create a new page, create the new page using that page as the template.

And then edit the old page as you see fit.

Tchalvak shared an idea in PBwiki on March 26, 2008 02:09:

Could we get a method to skip viewing the page and go straight to editing content or source, to avoid errant code that might make editing hard, like a page redirect?

Could we get an "edit" link in the all pages lists? This would allow us to edit pages that, say, contain a meta-refresh-redirect, and thus won't be editable by going to them directly. Or, even better, some way to directly go to editing the source, so that any errant html code is always accessable to be changed?

tchalvak replied on March 26, 2008 01:58 to the idea "Can we have a way to "save and continue editing" pages, so that we aren't forced to leave editing mode every time we want to save our work?" in PBwiki:

The auto-save is indeed nice, but really, a "save draft" button (That's probably preferable to a "save, publish, and continue" button) would let me know that I've locked my latest edits in whatever happens next.

tchalvak marked one of Casey Greene's replies in PBwiki as useful. Casey Greene replied to the problem "Html comments being displayed on page in IE6 after using point-and-click editor!".

tchalvak started following the question "Is Javascript supported in PBwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki.

Tchalvak marked one of Cardinal4's replies in PBwiki as useful. Cardinal4 replied to the problem "Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?".

tchalvak replied on March 26, 2008 01:32 to the problem "Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?" in PBwiki:

I agree as well, simply because creating an account and login, and offering up their email to an unknown company, and then having to remember all that information, is a barrier to the contribution for some people, and I'm trying to get the maximum contribution possible from my wikis, in many cases.

It'd even be ok, I guess, if it were just a page-level security option, so that certain pages could be made editable without any extra account creation or something like that, but part of the point of a wiki is so that multiple people can contribute easily and un-technically, and requiring contributor email addresses, account login creation and to remember account information that they may use only a few times works against that very powerfully.

Accessability is, I want to point out, the reason that wikipedia was able to become as successful as it is, and why it continues to grow; because it allows instantaneous, one-link editing for maximum contribution power.

tchalvak started following the question "Can I create redirect pages?" in PBwiki.

tchalvak started following the question "Can I create redirect pages?" in PBwiki.

tchalvak replied on March 26, 2008 00:59 to the question "2.0 beta -- can't figure out how to link to new/another page." in PBwiki:

I think that this is the same issue that he had, though I can't be sure. Creating a new page works fine when you go to the upper-right "create a new page" link, but when you use the following links that show up within the page-editing interface:

"Insert a link to a new page

1. Company Policies
2. Course
3. Directory
4. Document Repository
5. FrontPage
etc"

and you have nothing highlighted, nothing at all happens, not even a message.

So, if you don't have any text highlighted, and try to insert a new link or a link to one of the pre-existing pages, nothing happens and it doesn't indicate why. When you highlight something and then try it, it works fine, but I suspect that the phrasing (saying that you can "insert" a link, as opposed to in reality, changing -only- highlighted text to a link) gives a false impression of how to use it.

tchalvak started following the question "2.0 beta -- can't figure out how to link to new/another page." in PBwiki.

tchalvak shared an idea in PBwiki on March 26, 2008 00:45:

Please separate initial ?template? pages from actual user-created pages.

In the Beta pbwiki, please seperate the initial options (standard templates I have to assume?) from our user created pages! Otherwise it force-mixes my pages in with a very long list of templates that I have no wish to make use of. It's great that those options are available, but I don't care about them nearly as much as pages that I've created myself. Hopefully they can eventually just be categorized into two groups, with the "I actually created these pages" group at the top.

tchalvak replied on March 06, 2008 21:30 to the problem "Html comments being displayed on page in IE6 after using point-and-click editor!" in PBwiki:

Ah, thank god, problem solved, I didn't even realize that in all those buttons there was a "source" button, but once I used that I could find and delete those tags specifically, as you said, so that's dealt with.

So that's that.

I guess the only thing left is to suggest that whatever it was that was forcing those html comments to show up should display in the "point and click editor" when you're editing the page, since it actually becomes visible on the webpage in some browsers (or, at least, IE6). Not sure what the code was that was causing those html comments to show up, but here is a line of the code that was doing it, I could post it into to "suggestions" if necessary:

<o:wrapblock><v:shapetype><v:stroke><v:path></v:path><v:shape type="#_x0000_t202"><v:textbox><!--[if !mso]--> </v:textbox></v:shape></v:stroke></v:shapetype></o:wrapblock>

tchalvak replied on March 06, 2008 20:47 to the problem "Html comments being displayed on page in IE6 after using point-and-click editor!" in PBwiki:

I never saw those "<!-- [if !supportLists] --> 5 <!-- [endIf] -->" tags before today, I have no idea where they're from.
Looking at the errant tags closely, though, there's a tag "<!--[if !mso]--> " in there, which probably refers to MicroSoft Office, so I guess that those tags were copied and pasted over into the point-and-click editor from the original word doc that I got them from. The information on the page was originally copied and pasted from a word doc (http://compsci219.pbwiki.com/f/softRe...), so I guess that they must have come over from the word .doc file originally, but I didn't even know that something was wrong for the past few weeks, until I checked out the page in IE today.
It's still kinda problematic because they are completely invisible to me in the text inside the editor (both IE and Firefox), yet they show up on the page when viewed in IE. As a result, short of completely rewriting those very long pages, it looks like it might be a pain to try to remove those strange comment blocks, since I can't see them anywhere to edit them.

tchalvak reported a problem in PBwiki on March 06, 2008 16:06:

Html comments being displayed on page in IE6 after using point-and-click editor!

Html Comments are being displayed on the page in IE 6 (version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254 ) Windows XP, SP2, after using the new point-and-click editor to create the page.

Here is a screenshot: http://compsci219.pbwiki.com/f/bugWit...

And here's some of the original pages that I've noticed to be displaying crazily in IE 6:
http://compsci219.pbwiki.com/SRS
and
http://compsci219.pbwiki.com/SRStemplate

tchalvak marked one of Newbie's replies in PBwiki as useful. Newbie replied to the question "How do I change the background color on my pages? I've tried using the editor, changing the color and saving, but it stays the same pukey green. yuck.".

tchalvak replied on February 19, 2008 04:42 to the problem "edit page button stops being clickable after too much mouseovering!" in PBwiki:

Ah, I was perceiving what was happening wrong.

The links aren't becoming deactivated, their active location is actually becoming shifted. So on the hyperreal skin, on this page:
http://compsci219.pbwiki.com/SRS
the top links (Home/Edit Page/New Page/Comments/Files) are no longer clickable over their actual text, the clickable space is now shifted about one letter space up, above the word itself.
Hopefully that gets closer to the issue (there's also a lot of weird content on that page, so that may be affecting the css somehow).