On 23 May 2001, Karl Anderson wrote:
Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.fep.ru> writes:
I, personnaly, just hate web-based collaboration. Cameron Laird and few other people suggested me to try ZWiki. I tried. Now I hate web collaboration even more :)
Let me count pros and cons of web-based collaboration against e-mail:
1. Web is "pull technology". You need to download the entire page. How many times do I need to read and reread messages on http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ExtendedDTMLSorting - just to see noone added new comment? Isn't it just a waste of traffic?
I use NetMind's URL-Minder to tell me when the wikis I need to be on
Will NetMind send me false alarm when the design (not content) of the page changed? For example, if time stamped on the page - will NetMind send me notifications?
top of are updated. I watch RecentChanges when I care about the whole wiki, individual pages otherwise.
Where is RecentChanges on the page http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ExtendedDTMLSorting ?
2. Editing text is certainly weak point of the web. It is plainly nightmare to edit text in those small <textarea>s that loose all decent editing features. With e-mail, I can use whatever editor I prefer.
There's no reason to edit in the web browser if you don't want to. With FTP, you can use whatever editor you prefer.
I didn't tried it, but is dev.zope.org FTPable? Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.