{"id":477,"date":"2006-01-26T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=477"},"modified":"2006-01-26T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:52:00","slug":"477","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news copied from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooranch.com\/sdidesk\/wiki\/wiki.cgi\/ShowStoppers\">ShowStoppers page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still thinking, more and more seriously, about rewriting at least the wiki-to-html engine in Python.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also seriously thinking that the next release will actually be a complementary &#8220;web-server&#8221; edition, which allows you to edit pages via a browser (over the web) rather than through the VB program.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I have a simple webserver application which  let&#8217;s you access the SdiDesk pagestore via the browser over HTTP. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, this raises questions about security which will have to be answered before release. Will there have to be a login? Can you mark some pages as personal and private, while others are public, etc?<\/p>\n<p>If I go &#8216;browser only&#8217; I&#8217;ll initially lose the network diagrams. (Would anyone miss them?) Although it may be possible to put them back for the more recent Firefox using SVG \/ Canvas tags.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is ready yet. But it is looking promising. And the main reason is that the new code is in Python which will allow me to work on a proper Python based rendering engine. (Where I should fix all those bugs.)<\/p>\n<p>If the Python rendering engine works out, I&#8217;ll then try to retrofit it behind the current VB front-end.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news copied from the ShowStoppers page I&#8217;m still thinking, more and more seriously, about rewriting at least the wiki-to-html engine in Python. I&#8217;m also seriously thinking that the next release will actually be a complementary &#8220;web-server&#8221; edition, which allows you to edit pages via a browser (over the web) rather than through the VB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}