Wouter wrote regarding 'RE: [OT] what about "wiki"' on Wed, Jan 25 at 01:21:
> You'd have to ask yourself whether it is important that a non-techie
> finds something less intimidating. The ratio of tech/nontech on things
> like piclist and even the web in general are not what they are in the
> 'normal' world!

Yes, you have to know your audience.  There are several situations
where one's audience is liklely to not already know a particular form
of markup.  For something trying to reach the widest possible group of
people, you also have to take into account that the fastest growing
segment of Internet users are unlikely to know HTML, and are likely
non-technical.

> And with those nice syntaxes: where is defined how I
> write ( one | top ) as it is, for instance for a C expression? It does
> not matter that that is less common, in the end I will have to learn
> that anyway.

In the example I was using (twiki), you'd write it just like that.  A
table requires the line to start with a pipe.  If the line doesn't
start with a pipe, it's not a table.  Just FYI. :)

> For one thing the school recently changed its name from HvU to HU,
> so not it is changing all its server names. Which will make all
> pages unfindable through google for some time.

So they're taking the old names offline, instead of providing a
permanent redirect to the new pages?  That's only like 3 lines per
virtual server name in Apache, using mod_redirect, and then old links
still work until the DNS records expire...

--Danny
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