MouseCommand, a branch of wikish

[Jake Donham]

why the lucky stiff <why at hobix.com> writes:

> I've been playing around with Jake's wikish scrip

Thanks for running with it--I would like to contribute more myself but
I just started a comp sci PhD program and it's not leaving me any
recreational hack time at the moment.

Here is a thought: I work from school and from home, and I would like
to use this from both places (this is part of why I love del.icio.us),
but I don't know about opening up a MouseHole instance to the wide,
weird net. One alternative would be to provide a way to sync the wiki
from one MouseHole to another--you want your MouseHole local anyway.

Another thought, in the personal server department: a local
del.icio.us interface (syncable between MouseHoles as above), which
syncs to del.icio.us via its API. I use del.icio.us enough that I
sometimes find it annoyingly slow, and I rarely use the social
features. The trick would be to avoid duplicating the interface (as
much as possible). Maybe adds/edits still go direct to del.icio.us,
but lookups are local? Or have a less-fancy interface where you can
add/edit locally and have changes synced to del.icio.us later.

(The central-server design kind of bugs me in general; when we are
living in a truly Web N.0 for some high N world where everything is
making web service calls to everything else, it's going to be a
reliability nightmare. Things that can be handled locally should be
handled locally. This is why I like the personal server idea.)

Jake