[dokuwiki] FW: About the backlink button
- From: "Christopher Mc Carthy" <christopher.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:54:26 +0200
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> From: dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Decaluwe
> Sent: 07 June, 2005 12:12
>
> 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.
More conventional, yes; a number of times I have clicked the page name
expectinmg to go to the root of the wiki. However after a bit of
practice (couple of weeks of wiki) I no longer do that. Although I
rarely use the backlinks function (I'm more likely to use the index
bvutton, or the search field) I like the fact that it is there (and I
have used it before). So I agree with you, but am not sure of your
conclusion.
> 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
You mean using a sidebar? (I followed the link but don't quite get what
you want to say).
> 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".
I think this is a very good idea (displaying "newpage doesn't exist yet"
instead of "this topic...").
> 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.
Well there's my two euro cents, HTH
> Regards, Jan
Chris
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