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
where you might want to disable all auth so that people can't edit
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