Traumwind - Wikis look bad...

says Brent Simmons and I do mostly agree with what he says on the surface, but not in whole.

I disagree his statement that text-left-to-right is a problem because it forces you to resize the browser window... This is only true if you come from 'normal' pages to a WiKi like page... if you browse a WiKi a lot, and adjust your browser window once, the benefit in screen real-esate is a deal.

I guess WiKis only look ghood if you set sensible browser defaults for fonts (sit´ze/family) and that's one of the virtues of a WiKI. It values my settings, and not those of the site-designer.

To return to Brent's page, I simpüly can't read his text until I up the font-size several notches, and then the line-spacing becomes a problem...

I think WiKis are in the same league as RSS feeds on this. They care about content, and not about presentation. Presentation is left for the reader.

Only problem here is the expectation of the normal webuser. Who even know he can change the default font on hie/her browser?

So maybe WiKIs should be split consquently into a data-layer and a presentation layer. Some CSS magic should do nicely here. (comapre this original WiKi page lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCheia to the mirrored and slightly altered version with some CSS)

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