There was a reason I wrote CL-DIFFLIB.
Mostly it was to try to experiment with alternative CLiki RSS feeds, but certainly other wikis have found it useful to be able to display the differences between multiple revisions of a page.
The next step is to tweak the tokenization a bit, then maybe offer a way to view just the changed portions of a page, perhaps with some surrounding context.
I do think that this way of presenting differences is probably more appropriate for a wiki than the standard diff-style parade of <'s, >'s, !'s, +'s and -'s.
> blah blah blah > whee < glah glah glah < whirrrPosted by jjwiseman at February 17, 2005 06:10 PM
Actually, I wish there was some rich text or hypertext version of diff that outputted in that manner for source code.
Posted by: Oliver on February 18, 2005 07:20 AMDid anything promising come on the rss feed side of things?
Not yet. I don't feel like I have a good idea of what to put in a useful RSS feed.
I think diffs would be good, but there are a few different formats I'm thinking about, and I'm not sure which to use. One is the full-page diff, as in the screenshot. Another is a side-by-side diff, like Wikipedia's. The third would be similar to the full-page diff, but with a more limited context around changes.
Another question is whether it makes sense to try to retain the current CLiki RSS practice of batching multiple edits together.