web commit by http://xtermin.us/: some comments/griping about recentchanges in general.

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@ -67,3 +67,22 @@ to edits anyhow, but like Josh says, there are use cases for this.
While this could be done with mail subscriptions, I can think of sites While this could be done with mail subscriptions, I can think of sites
where you might want to disable all auth so that people can't edit where you might want to disable all auth so that people can't edit
your pages. --Ethan your pages. --Ethan
> I really dislike all Wiki engine recentchanges pages. They all tend to be
> fairly machine readable, but confusing for non-wiki users to grok. And I've
> yet to see an _attractive_ recentchanges implementation. IkiWikis' is no
> better or worse than the others.
>
> I really like the frontpage of [Bill
> Seitz](http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/FrontPage) as an recentchanges
> format. Note how he uses some clever css to show changes in different
> sections of the website. I modeled my own
> [recentchanges](http://xtermin.us/recentchange) page page on his ideas. This
> probably isn't appropriate for non-WikiLog style setups, but is this
> something closer to what you what was requested?
>
> BTW: My recentchanges plugin does not seem to add a lot processing time
> to compiling. Then again, I'm not pulling changelog message from the RCS
> backend.
>
> -- CharlesMauch