Hi all, I have installed several wiki-ish/collab apps within my intranet so we can test drive them and pick one by the end of the month ( twiki, mediawiki, confluence, xwiki, jspwiki, snipsnap, sharepoint, etc ). So far xwiki is one of the best from the dev point of view. It is free, flexible ( makes for a nice platform for quick day-to-day inhoues apps ), and 100% java. And since we are all geeks, it makes for a nice toy. But from the usability POV it lags behind. * Forms and buttons are not polished ( interaction is awkward and feedback is sometimes ambigous ) * There is too much on the screen I really believe you should focus on improving the UI, as it accounts for a large part of the perceived value... take a look at twiki, confluence or SnipSnap ( and even mediakiwi and it's sound simplicity ). Is something on these lines planned for the next release? Dates? I am tweaking the templates to see how far I can go, but I'd rather stay aligned with you guys. Great work ;), Aldo -- ::::: Aldo Bucchi ::::: mobile (56) 8 429 8300
Hi, This is our main priority between 1.0B1 (coming out beginning of May) and 1.0 (between May and September). We plan to improve the look (polished as you say) with involvement of specialists and the feel (presentation, organization, ease of use features with some in AJAX). We'd love some help on this. We will probably take a Google Summer of Code project in this area. Ludovic Aldo Bucchi a écrit :
Hi all,
I have installed several wiki-ish/collab apps within my intranet so we can test drive them and pick one by the end of the month ( twiki, mediawiki, confluence, xwiki, jspwiki, snipsnap, sharepoint, etc ).
So far xwiki is one of the best from the dev point of view. It is free, flexible ( makes for a nice platform for quick day-to-day inhoues apps ), and 100% java. And since we are all geeks, it makes for a nice toy.
But from the usability POV it lags behind. * Forms and buttons are not polished ( interaction is awkward and feedback is sometimes ambigous ) * There is too much on the screen
I really believe you should focus on improving the UI, as it accounts for a large part of the perceived value... take a look at twiki, confluence or SnipSnap ( and even mediakiwi and it's sound simplicity ). Is something on these lines planned for the next release? Dates?
I am tweaking the templates to see how far I can go, but I'd rather stay aligned with you guys.
Great work ;), Aldo
-- ::::: Aldo Bucchi ::::: mobile (56) 8 429 8300
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Will the 1.0B1 release include replacement of htmlarea with the new wiki syntax editor? wysiwyg editing and integrating/attaching images are the main "usability" issue for us creating documentation at this point. I'm trying to beat dreamweaver on simplicity. And sometimes velocity trips on various things since we have been putting old html pages into the xwiki database. Everything else is really great!! Thanks, -ken On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
Hi,
This is our main priority between 1.0B1 (coming out beginning of May) and 1.0 (between May and September). We plan to improve the look (polished as you say) with involvement of specialists and the feel (presentation, organization, ease of use features with some in AJAX).
We'd love some help on this. We will probably take a Google Summer of Code project in this area.
Ludovic
Aldo Bucchi a écrit :
Hi all,
I have installed several wiki-ish/collab apps within my intranet so we can test drive them and pick one by the end of the month ( twiki, mediawiki, confluence, xwiki, jspwiki, snipsnap, sharepoint, etc ).
So far xwiki is one of the best from the dev point of view. It is free, flexible ( makes for a nice platform for quick day-to-day inhoues apps ), and 100% java. And since we are all geeks, it makes for a nice toy.
But from the usability POV it lags behind. * Forms and buttons are not polished ( interaction is awkward and feedback is sometimes ambigous ) * There is too much on the screen
I really believe you should focus on improving the UI, as it accounts for a large part of the perceived value... take a look at twiki, confluence or SnipSnap ( and even mediakiwi and it's sound simplicity ). Is something on these lines planned for the next release? Dates?
I am tweaking the templates to see how far I can go, but I'd rather stay aligned with you guys.
Great work ;), Aldo
-- ::::: Aldo Bucchi ::::: mobile (56) 8 429 8300
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On 4/22/06, Ken Kim <kenk@ucar.edu> wrote:
Will the 1.0B1 release include replacement of htmlarea with the new wiki syntax editor?
the wysiwyg will be replace in the new version with the new one.
wysiwyg editing and integrating/attaching images are the main "usability" issue for us creating documentation at this point. I'm trying to beat dreamweaver on simplicity.
And sometimes velocity trips on various things since we have been putting old html pages into the xwiki database. Everything else is really great!!
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