instiki - a ruby on rails wiki now hacked for your mobile pleasure
so far, i’ve modded Instiki to have new stylesheets for a cleaner look, and a set of blackberry and mobile device optimizations, including:
- adding javascript show/hide for the wiki editing help and hiding it by default
- shortening the help text and moving it below the page body when editing so you don’t have to scroll past it
- reducing the ROARINGLY LOUD font-size of the page header
- when password-protecting your instiki, you’re forced to chose between giving users full edit access plus back-links (”this page is linked to from…”), or no edit access with no back-links. the intertwingledness of back-links with editing privileges didn’t work for me, so i hacked published mode so that back-links work in published and authenticated mode, plus the edit button is now always visible, but if you’re in published (un-authenticated) mode, the edit button will make you login first
once you preview the changes you’ll see that the results are much more usable on a blackberry…
download the rails code at /downloads/jm3-instiki-hacks.diff
apply it via: patch -p0
next hacks:
- make search work like back-links — independent of authenticated state
- pass the current page to the wiki login controller so that logging in to edit takes you back to the same page and not to the homepage — doh.