[wikka-community] Killer feature for Wikka

[ddevine]

Dario Taraborelli wrote:
> (forwarded from the dev list)
>
> All
>
> however fabulous 1.1.7 wil be in terms of improvements, stability and  
> new functionality -- I'd like to hear from you what you would consider  
> the missing killer feature for Wikka.
>
> Tormod's new table markup [1], introducing support for accessibility  
> options and easy CSS styling for tables, is just fantastic and I'm  
> sure it will attract a lot of interest, but it's not something really  
> unique in the wiki world.
>
> Back in the old days, FreeMind support -- originally meant to be just  
> a proof-of-concept -- turned out to be possily the most important  
> selling point for Wikka ever.  Since Jason introduced mindmaps many  
> other engines have been implementing this and crediting Wikka as a  
> forerunner.
>
> Lately we have all been busy with a lot of coding to improve Wikka's  
> architecture and performance, but I sometimes have the feeling we may  
> have forgot our mission towards world domination :) So what if you  
> should name the killer wiki feature for the 3rd millenium?
>
> I'm tempted to think that OpenID [2] and microformats [3] support  
> could be good candidates. Wiki markup to embed Google Maps [4] was a  
> nice idea but it starts looking so "last year" by now. Working towards  
> WCAG conformance could also be interesting, but certainly less fancy  
> for the big crowds out there.
>
> Have your say and be unpredictable
>
> d
>
>
> [1]  http://docs.wikkawiki.org/TableMarkup
> [2]  http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/546
> [3] http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/515
> [4] http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/224
>
>   
I think a great addition would be to integrate a charting application 
like gliffy.
http://www.gliffy.com/

This would be a fantastic way to do things and only Confluence currently 
supports it which is proprietary.

-- 


Derrick Devine, Technical Writer
phone: (919) 851-3984 x2151
fax: (919) 851.3985
rPath, Inc., The Software Appliance Company
701 Corporate Center Drive
Raleigh, NC 27607
www.rPath.com