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Kim_Bruning • yesterday at 12:27 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Did you notice you can click anywhere in the text and edit it?

Something was lost along the way.

(Nowadays you need a separate wiki engine on a site to be able to do that)

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dadoum • yesterday at 1:45 AM

F12, Console, type

    document.designMode = 'on'
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karlgkk • yesterday at 1:13 AM

> (Nowadays you need a separate wiki engine on a site to be able to do that)

No you don’t. These browser simply PUTs the request and your web server simply edits the document. Versioning is optional, of course.

thenthenthen • yesterday at 9:38 AM

The original read/write web

krapp • yesterday at 12:32 AM

Do we know that they didn't have some backend code handing the editing?

I don't think a web where every page is globally editable by default would be a good idea, but I can't imagine at all how it would work without a backend, unless all of the changes are just local. But that seems pointless.

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