MuSwiki

Overview

A MuSwiki is a Swiki-like system which uses Morphic objects instead of HTML. The key features of a MuSwiki are:

Of course, the use of Morphic objects instead of HTML code.
Pages look the same on anyone's browser.
Any user may update any page in the system.
Users are prevented from updating a page at the same time.
When one user updates a page, all other users viewing the same page are shown the new version.
Content may contain arbitrary Smalltalk code behind the scenes!

It is being worked on by Lex Spoon and Mark Guzdial.

ScreenShot

Here's an example MuSwiki page, shown within a browser. In addition to having hyperlinks and graphic content, note that this page has active elements: the time-of-day is correct and ticking, and the waveform can be played as a sound and modified.

Installation

Load the following changesets:

Also recommended is http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakers/QuietSmartRefs.cs, which takes out all the messages from SmartRefStream file-in and file-out.

To start a new MuSwiki server, type and execute the following code:


s _ MuSwikiServer on: 'MuSwikiPages'.
s startListeningOnPort: 9090.
s openAdminMorph.

To open up a MuSwiki browser:


MuSwikiBrowser new openInMorphic.

Fill out the form (make up a username for yourself, no password) then type Connect.

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