[xwiki-devs] Full screen viewing (was Re: Display the edit button even when not logged in?)

[Vincent Massol]

On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:13 AM, goldring, richard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes it would certainly encourage my users to edit - at the moment  
> its not
> obvious that a page can be edited, so they don't even try and just  
> think its
> a normal uneditable website.
>
> On another wiki the right hand menu bar only appears when you move  
> your
> pointer to the right hand side of the screen, so you effectively  
> have more
> room for viewing the wiki content and only have a menu bar when you  
> need it
> - thought that might be a cool feature for xwiki but how to do it  
> I'm not
> sure.

We have added fullscreen editing. Now I guess we could also add  
fullscreen viewing. Shouldn't be too hard to do. Now we only need to  
find someone interested in implementing it. Any takers? :)

Thanks
-Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devs-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces at xwiki.org]On  
> Behalf Of
> Vincent Massol
> Sent: 01 October 2007 21:21
> To: XWiki Developers
> Subject: [xwiki-devs] Display the edit button even when not logged in?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at a wiki tonight and I noticed there was an edit
> button even though I wasn't logged in. So I clicked on it, and then I
> was told that if I wanted to edit the page I had to register/log in.
>
> I found that this was very nice since:
>
> * Users are tempted to click on the edit button and contribute
> * It clearly shows to users who don't know wikis that they can
> contribute content
>
> I think we should have this feature in XWiki. I would even go as far
> as proposing that it be on by default.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent