About this blog

This site is powered by Ikiwiki. It took me a while to set it up and I have some things to share.

Firstly :

• templates that use HTML5
• s2p2, a bash script that pre-processes JavaScript and ( Clever ) CSS

About style sheets :

• there is quite some of CSS3, like selectors and flexible box model
• the biggest part is written in Clever CSS

For Clever CSS, a ccss syntax file for kate.

Concerning JavaScript :

• I got rid of the default ikiwiki.js as I don't support old browsers
• chtml creates real elements from HTML code contained in comments of the form <!--(CHTML) ... -->

Everything has been written with technologies supported by the current versions of Firefox and Chromium as of April 2010. A conditional comment hides scripts and styles from all versions of IE. If you are using an up-to-date free browser and you encounter a problem send me a mail or even better a patch, I'll see what I can do.

About comments

After a lot of thinking and some debate I decided to enable pseudo-anonymous comments only ( you can put a nickname and a website ). This means no OpenID and no user registration.

I'll try to talk about that in a future post on Internet Identity.

Critics of ikiwiki

• Perl sux
• I couldn't find a good way to build a site from multiple repositories
• no threaded comments
• discussion pages as crappy as traditional MediaWiki ones ( maybe even more )