web commit by tuomov: Rationale

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joey 2007-02-20 09:17:21 +00:00
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@ -283,6 +283,15 @@ I'll attach an updated and slightly modified version below.
>>>> Oh, I see, this patch doesn't address wanting to use foo/index.mdwn as >>>> Oh, I see, this patch doesn't address wanting to use foo/index.mdwn as
>>>> an input page. Hmm. --Ethan >>>> an input page. Hmm. --Ethan
>>>>> No, it doesn't. I originally also was after that, but after discussing the
>>>>> complexities of supporting that with Joey, came up with this simpler scheme
>>>>> without many of those issues. It is the output that I primarily care about, anyway,
>>>>> and I do, in fact, find the present input file organisation quite nice. The output
>>>>> locations just aren't very good for conversion of an existing site to ikiwiki, and do
>>>>> make for rather ugly URLs with the .html extensions. (I do often type some URLs
>>>>> out of memory, when they're gone from the browser's completion history, and the
>>>>> .html makes that more laboursome.)
* This does make the resulting wikis much less browsable directly on the * This does make the resulting wikis much less browsable directly on the
filesystem, since `dir` to `dir/index.html` conversion is only handled by web filesystem, since `dir` to `dir/index.html` conversion is only handled by web
servers and so you end up browsing to a directory index all the time. servers and so you end up browsing to a directory index all the time.