use of alerts on the help wiki

Connor Imes rocket2dmn at aol.com
Sat Sep 20 13:26:18 UTC 2008


Matthew East wrote:
>> It should be possible to give people either or both of:
>>
>> <<Alert("message", "title", "icon", "background colour", ...)>>
>>
>> or:
>>
>> <<Alert("message", "class")>>
>>     
>
> These are too complicated, I think. The reason I liked the original
> usage of <<Warning(message)>> and wanted to limit the alerts to three,
> is that this makes things so simple that all authors should be able to
> pick them up and start using them trouble-free.
>   
I agree, that looks more like programming than wiki work, nobody is 
going to remember all those arguments.  I like the original idea 
Warnings, Hints, and Notes - we should implement these soon if others 
like the idea, too.

-Connor aka Rocket2DMn




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