[ewiki] Re: Custom link formats

Mike,

If that plugin is missing from your installation, then it probably
was added short after the last major release (R1.02a). There were
a few +dev versions since then, but in case those also don't contain
said plugin, just get the CVS tarball (made a fresh one five minutes
ago) from  http://erfurtwiki.sf.net/downloads/CVS/

Thanks for the hints on the _SELF target. And if you could contribute
parts of your customized site as sample layout wrapper back (or post
it on our site), that would also be very great!


> The favicon is indeed a bit more complex, and the reasons you mention make it 
> even more so. My plan is to download each icon once, then cache them locally. 
> This should greatly reduce the performance problems that you mention. I'll 
> probably have the server refresh the icons every 90 days or so in the event 
> that they change, but this shouldn't be a significant problem.  But the added 
> complexity is why I tackled the targets one first. 

The longer I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that
this feature should be implemented outside of ewiki. A cron script
and a separate SQL table was probably the best solution. You then
would only need a small wiki plugin, that either retrieves the
favicon image url from the database, or simply tags it for later
retrieval if it hasn't been there yet. No need to actually cache
the image files IMO.

If it is implemented more separately, such a feature and database
table could be used by more applications, because there is no need
to duplicate the effort in each application. What I could think of
is something like a table named 'favicons' shared by ewiki, blogs
and other software; and a simple cron script taking care of filling
it and keeping it up to date. (emmh, sounds like yet another sub
project...)

Best,
mario


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