Darn It Innovating Again
Online editing still sucks
Darn it, I’m innovating again.
I want the navigation in the blog and wiki to be special, yet still readable and usable for those with cookies turned off. I remain on a quest for vertical space.
This is a case for javascript. I hope.
With the proper cookie, show:
login or logout
if logged in, and an admin user, show “edit” on every page
if logged in, and not an admin user show “edit” on appropriate pages
help
comment - on the individual blog pages (maybe)
RecentChanges
Preferences
- Without javascript show all these next to each other, like this:
Login Logout Help Edit RecentChanges Blog Wiki Archives Tags
- With Javascript show the appropriate login/logout and the rest in a drop down menu
So I get three cookies from ikiwiki:
ikiwiki_session_Nex6
openid_provider
pandab.org ??
Now what? I am going to defer hacking on this for another day, but getting cookies is solved. Manipulating css is solvable - setting the display: none for sections that I don’t want to display is straightforward. I’d have to modify ikiwiki.cgi to generate a cookie that makes sense for general page permissions (and enforce better security on the backend), maybe a regexp of some kind that looks similar to how ikiwiki actually does things internally…
And I want the nav stuff to be deferred until late in the page.
Find me elsewhere.
Beating the Brand - A pathological exploration of how branding makes it hard to think straight
Inside the Internet Mind - trying to map the weather within the global supercomputer that consists of humans and google
Sex In Politics - If politicians spent more time pounding the flesh rather than pressing it, it would be a better world
Getting resources from space - An alternative to blowing money on mars using NEAs.
On the Columbia - Why I care about space