Development

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 16 Apr 2009 17:48 GMT-0000 posts: 4656 ☆ ☆ ☆

Sorry to hear about your change of plans. About the points you mentioned:

• I don't know what method you are referring to about translating strings, but it's possible to have menu items in different languages. This is done pretty often at Tiki sites. Tiki doesn't actually translate anything of course. That's up to the site editors.
• It is true that many pages at doc.tikiwiki.org have had temporary problems because the site was being upgraded to Tiki 3 beta and the need to authorize wiki plugins one at a time wasn't anticipated. That's why we were testing on the project's site, to work out a better solution so end users would be spared the problem. This was explained to you in IRC if I recall correctly.
• Also true that RTL support hasn't been very good; it is improved somewhat in Tiki 3.
• I don't know what the problem was with your "send" or "preview" buttons. I haven't heard other reports of this; perhaps related to RTL if that was in effect at the time.
• SEFURLs haven't been a priority for Tiki, I think, due to the nature of the userbase and sites, which haven't placed as high a priority on search engine friendliness and rankings as some of the other platforms. So it's late, but progressing.
• Also true that WYSIWYG is a bit slow here, but keep in mind this was a wiki first, and probably WYSIWYG was not felt to be a strong need because most early adaptors of Tiki were comfortable with wiki syntax. It's pretty tricky combining a wysiwyg editor and a wiki editor in the same software and to work on the same pages, something that may not be an issue for other software that uses WYSIWYG as an alternative to editing raw HTML. As a provider of the two editing methods, from what I hear, Tiki stands comparison pretty well.
• XHTML validation has been a problem, for sure. But Tiki 3 does validate for XHTML and CSS (see my http://zukakakina.com/tw3 site) - at least when using the The News theme and when the mouseover user information popup is turned off. Overlib.js seems to produce a lot of XHTML validation errors. Anyway, I hope XHTML validation is an issue apart from your choosing Drupal, as drupal.org also fails to validate, with many errors.

Well, not to say that there isn't still a long way to go in various areas, but progress is steady. When you come back, things should be in even better shape.

-- Gary