I am pretty depending on being able to see what happened from version to version - also quite old versions - when I work on this project

At the moment I am trying to find out who did a particular rename of some of the TWiki prefixed topics.

So I click the history button. And I can see 10 revisions.

There is no longer any possibility to choose to see 50 versions back.

There is no longer any possibility to choose the classic diff view.

And I cannot choose to see the changes inline. There is only side-by-side.

The CompareRevisionsAddOn + HistoryPlugin works so well together in Pattern.

But the feature set is totally crippled here in nextwiki.org. It is like someone thinks we need protection against too many features. But we don't. Those two plugins have been developed to meet the requirements users have to see the audit trail of a topic. And the simplifications does not improve usability. It makes it hopeless to do your job.

You guys need to stop hiding all the good features and instead think about how you can make them work smarter.

To do my job here on nextwiki I find myself appending ?skin=pattern all the time. 2-5 times per day. Not because of taste. I simply lack my features.

The CompareRevisionsAddOn has a major strength. It can show the difference between to randomly selected versions marking deleted text red and added text green. So changed text is shown as red strikeout text and green text. That is what we need here. HistoryPlugin and CompareRevisionsAddon working with skin templates like they are made for Pattern. It works so well. That is what usability is all about.

I hope you will try it. In PatternSkin. Play with it. And then adobt the same feature set for the Nat skin with the style that matches this skin.

-- KennethLavrsen - 14 Nov 2008 - 17:33

NOTE: i want diff to be able to give me a diff from the last revision that i looked at a page, not just the last revision (this was implemented in Development.O'Wiki)

-- WillNorris - 16 Nov 2008 - 23:25