| ▲ | Kim_Bruning 7 hours ago |
| Did you notice you can click anywhere in the text and edit it? Something was lost along the way. (Nowadays you need a separate wiki engine on a site to be able to do that) |
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| ▲ | dadoum 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| F12, Console, type document.designMode = 'on'
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| ▲ | karlgkk 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > (Nowadays you need a separate wiki engine on a site to be able to do that) No you don’t. These browser simply PUTs the request and your web server simply edits the document. Versioning is optional, of course. |
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| ▲ | krapp 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do we know that they didn't have some backend code handing the editing? I don't think a web where every page is globally editable by default would be a good idea, but I can't imagine at all how it would work without a backend, unless all of the changes are just local. But that seems pointless. |
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| ▲ | zabzonk 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > But that seems pointless. Making notes for your own consumption? | |
| ▲ | shakna 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Being able to change stylesheets, disable or enhance various JavaScript scripts, add notes and annotations, and other things, is exactly the idea of a user agent. The user makes a request, and then does whatever they like with the answer. Not just whatever is sensible, but whatever they want to do. If that concept somehow became accepted again... I think the accessible web might well become a solved problem, rather than an endless slog. | | |
| ▲ | idiotsecant 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | In what way is that not currently possible? All browsers I know of you can edit whatever you want in any page you download | | |
| ▲ | shakna 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You'll need to do a bit of work to make it the way it used to be. Editing any text on a page, or having your changes save persistently, needs a bit of a... Framework, to keep things together, rather than being the expected mode of interaction. Sure, I can add a p to the tree. But if I refresh, its gone. I'll probably need plugins to keep my own stylesheets and JS changes around. |
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| ▲ | Kim_Bruning 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | HTTP has PUT and DELETE for a reason ;-) | |
| ▲ | actionfromafar 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Upload the file when you are done, perhaps? |
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