[dokuwiki] About the backlink button
- From: Jan Decaluwe <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:11:48 +0200
Hi:
The default template has a prominent backlink button
at the top-left of the page, with the wiki page name as
its text.
I would like to remove that button in my own template.
I would prefer to have the wiki title on that place,
and a short description (tagline) on the top-right.
This is a more conventional layout.
Of course, this means that I lose the backlink
functionality. The purpose of this post is to investigate
the implications and seek opinions.
I think the backlink button serves two purposes.
First, it works as a special kind of navigational aid:
clicking on it reveals backlinks. I must admit that I
never found this very useful, as the navigation direction
is inverse. Moreover, I believe I have an appropriate
solution for conventional (forward) navigation. See:
http://jandecaluwe.com/testwiki/doku.php
Conclusion: there's no need to keep the backlink
button for this purpose.
Secondly, the backlink button text serves as a page
name in some useful cases. For example, when following
a link to an unexisting page, it holds the page name
that can potentially be created.
To address this issue, we could make the wiki messages
more descriptive. For example, instead of the current
message:
"This topic doesn't exist yet"
we would get:
"newpage doesn't exist yet"
when following a link to an unexisting "newpage".
Unfortunately, this cannot be done without a new
feature :-) (I think). The most straightfoward way
is probably to introduce a special case of the wiki
link syntax, that would resolve to the current $ID.
An obvious candidate is:
[[.]]
although the analogy with unix directory syntax is
not perfect.
Opinions welcome.
Regards, Jan
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