New private notes in WideWord documents 3
I’ve meant to do this for ages, but now you can have private notes in your WideWord documents. They are basically the same as comments, but private and encrypted.
I thought for a long time about what to call them, but to avoid confusion between the the public comments and the private notes. It may not be perfect, but then again it was better to get it out I think thank keep holding it off.
So, what I have done is disabled the comments on private documents. If you do have existing comments, you can still view them and write new ones. If you make your private document public, people can write comments and you can reply. In this case it will display the private notes before the public comments.
That is really confusing isn’t it?
Notes
Are private and encrypted. They are only used and viewed by members of the document.
Comments
Are public, just like blog comments. With the exception of existing documents with comments, you can only add comments to public documents.
Watchdog
A good pal of mine has setup a remote watchdog service for WideWord, so assuming I am on the net I should be informed quickly of any problems like last weekend. I am looking at finding some sms solution, so I can get informed away from the computer.
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I’ve been wondering for a couple of days now, whether it was possible to license or otherwise use the WideWords editing area in your own application? Do you make that possible at all, or is it just for WideWords?
Hi Rapha, I’m actually using the Dojo Rich Text Editor, which is open source.
I am working on a simpler one which plays better in a rails environment as it uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. You can get the quick and dirty version on the Rails Spinoffs list
It is however incomplete and you need to manually remove some debugging alert() statements.
Will post more when it is better.
Very cool! Thanks a lot! :-)