On 24 October 2007 the Wiki received a makeover - and there's more to come!
Whilst not yet perfect (nor will it ever be) the new Wiki contains the same contents as the old, but presented in a fresher and (hopefully) more "newbie" friendly way.
The main difference you'll notice is the menu and Table of Contents (TOC) on the left. You can turn it on and off using the "Show menu" / "Hide menu" links at the bottom of each page.
The Recent Changes page has been made more tabular. If you see a table with borders and rows have alternating coloured backgrounds you need to flush your browser cache using Shift-Refresh / CTRL-F5 to get the new CSS.
An attempt has been made to make the Wiki render acceptably well on all common platforms (Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, IE6, IE7). IE6 has some issues but they are mostly cosmetic (e.g., the spurious highlighting of some entries in the menu). The solution is to install Firefox :)
The look and feel are the first steps in the makeover.
The design assumes JavaScript is enabled and gives the best experience if it is (e.g., hierarchical menus). To see what you're missing look at http://wiki.tcl.tk/images/wiki.png
Comments, suggestions and problem reports are welcome and encouraged - but please recognize that for every 10 Tclers there will be at least 12 opinions relating to web design.
The TOC is an initial "placeholder" and is being revised by Sean Deely Woods and others with experience in cataloging. It might be best to withhold any comments on the TOC contents until the next revision.
Please record suggestions via http://code.google.com/p/wikitcl/issues/list so that they can be tracked.
The work was performed by Jos Decoster, Steve Landers and Colin McCormack.
EF Awesome work, congrats!
RLH Comment : I liked the old way of showing code. Maybe something between the new and old?
IDG Yep! And mine is that the default font is too small. Otherwise it looks great!
WJR Wow! This looks terrific (OS X + Camino). Nice job all!
WJG Great, a much improved interface. If property has 'curb-appeal', then a web site needs 'browse-appeal'. Nothing too fancy or overdone, something practical and easy to read. I use Firefox on Linux and so the fonts appear smaller compared to Windows, so perhaps the default fonts could be larger. Otherwise, excellent stuff!
stevel FYI - fonts improved - thanks for the feedback. 25 Oct 2008
IDG Yes, much nicer today! Thanks.
MAKR Nothing more to say, except: Thanks all!
TR - Cool, tables!! This is great news!
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stevel Yes - Jos Decoster has implemented table support and also support for centred blocks. For a good example of how to use (including using both to centre the Categories at the bottom of each page) see Scripted Compiler.
stevel Suggestions/problem reports moved to http://code.google.com/p/wikitcl/issues/list so that they can be tracked. As requested above, please don't post them here.
LV Also note that Jos describes the various features on his page, right now. I expect that the information will also appear on some of the standard wiki pages (like Wiki formatting rules, or the editing quick reference) as time permits wikignomes to perform such updates.
DcK I agree, this is a very nice refresh and the proof a wiki can definitely be convivial!
MG Thanks for all the hard work, the new wiki is looking great. Any reason there's so much pale grey on white, though? The old colours for code were much easier to read, I think. (see [L1 ] - stevel) MG Thanks, will post comments there.
LES on Nov-12-2007: I don't want to seem rude or ungrateful, but I don't like "the new look" at all. I think that menu takes up too much space and, actually, I loathe Javascript. I missed the old look. So I did what I could to restore the old look and, while at it, changed it a little. I decided to share my solution. Even if you don't like it, you can hack it. Except that, of course, if you want to hack the CSS that is hosted in my site [L2 ], you will have to host it yourself elsewhere. First of all, you need to install and configure Privoxy [L3 ]. Then download these two files: [L4 ] and [L5 ]. Copy the contents of my user.action file to the end (append) of yours and the contents of my default.filter file to the end (append) of yours. That's all. There is no need to reboot your machine or restart Privoxy. Just refresh the pages in your browser. Please note that I made that for Firefox on Linux. I also tested it on Konqueror. I have no idea if it will work on IE.
