Re: Is there a good wiki software? (not an online version)

On 02/02/2007 Joerg wrote:

Daenris wrote:

On Feb 1, 6:51 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Initially cross-posted into the wrong group, hope the cancel
worked fast enough. Sorry about that.

Ok, guys, I had asked this maybe a year ago and hopefully there
is some new stuff by now. I read in EE Times today about Zoho
Wiki which allows online collaboration. While that is nice, a
consultant can't do that for projects. It has to stay local and
confidential. So far most programs can either create local web
pages or read them. But not both. Beats me why not. Only
MS-Word can do both on my PC but when doing so it crashes too
much.

Is there a nice, small Wiki software? It should do as a minimum:

* Create and edit HTML.
* Read HTML.
* be able to insert links.
* Be able to also jump to those links.
* Be able to copy bitmaps and stuff into docs.
* Do all this within the same window.

Ok, folks, found one that works, kind of. NVU from:

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

At least you can click a link, then scroll a sub-menu and click
"Edit Link in New Window". A bit clumsy but ok. No back button
though :-(

I wonder why the creators of this (and many, many other programs)
haven't chosen the obvious: Click on the link and it goes
straight to that page, provide a back button to go back.
Right-click if the link info needs editing.

< banging head on table ... >

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com


Sounds like (as someone suggested) Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/)
is what you want. It allows both editing, and following links to
view pages at the same time.

What you're looking for is not really a Wiki, as nearly all wikis
require a webserver and/or a database to be used. There are some
like http://www.instiki.org/ that include an embedded webserver and
try to make it as simple as possible to use, or you can follow the
setup here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Wiki_on_a_stick_with_WOS_(Webserver_on_Stick) to set up a basic wiki
on a USB drive or similar.

However, what you're really looking for is just a combination web
editor/browser. Wiki's typically have their own markup, so you're
not actually coding html anyway, so it wouldn't work outside the
wiki.

But, as suggested, get Amaya and you'll be able to edit HTML pages,
as well as browse around within those pages (or even outside, it's a
browser as well).


Ok, that's also what John B suggested so I got Amaya and fired it up.
Indeed it does what I want. However, the text is displayed a bit
fuzzy, not as crisp as Word, NVU and all other SW I have displays it.

What Amaya really seems to botch is images, to the point where an
image can't be recognized. Strange. Do you experience that as well?

Hi Joerg,

Amaya works fine for me; images are perfect and text is very readable.
I use XP Home with SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 8200. Screen resolution is
1600x1200. How do those settings compare with yours?

I don't use IE if I can help it and have avoided installing IE7. Opera
9.10 is my default browser. Hope that helps.


--
John B
.

Quantcast