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I'm a Lead Program Manager in the Digital Documents group at Microsoft; we're part of the Windows team.

WikiTalk is born (or at least we're driving quickly towards the hospital!)

OK.  I've started to post information about WikiTalk, my new object-oriented language for FlexWiki.  It's probably going to talk another few days to get the documentation usable and it'll likely be another few days after that before I post the binaries (and then a week after that when I actually checkin).  However, the build on www.flexwiki.com is live with the first version of WikiTalk (thought it's really 0.9).  Read more about WikiTalk here.

This has been a blast so far: starting with the concept, writing the lexical analyzer, hand-coding the parser, building the interpreter and using reflection to ties the object system together.  It's enough to make me think about going back to writing code for a living :-)

Published Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:20 PM by dornstein
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Jim Vrckovski said:

Hi David,

this is so cool, I can't wait to give this a go.

Will this enhancement be available in the source code on GotDotNet?
March 20, 2004 10:14 PM
 

Code In Zen said:

March 21, 2004 1:17 AM
 

David Ornstein said:

Of course it'll be available! It'll take a week or two to be sure that it's safe (since I've had to rip out the spleen and many other organs inside the body of the patient). But I will be checking this all in soon.

of course, I expect to checkin a 0.9 versions and it'll take collaboration with the community to get the bugs out.
March 20, 2004 10:44 PM
 

Shannon J Hager said:

Can you please do something about the default font so that it is readable in Firefox? This is a long-standing problem and a showstopper for many of us.

[Please note: I do not have knowledge of any code used for FlexWiki and I do not know why the text is so small in Firefox. If it is a Firefox bug and you are setting the text to a readable font, I apologize.]
March 20, 2004 11:21 PM
 

Korby Parnell's WebLog said:

March 21, 2004 3:09 AM
 

Derek Lakin said:

This truly is amazing. I can't wait to try it out and see what can be done with a FlexWiki.

P.S. I think the FireFox font size problem is down to the "font-size: 80%;" entry for the .Main class. If you use somthing like "font-size: x-small;" instead it should be a readable size in IE and FF.
March 22, 2004 1:48 AM
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