Since we’re 2.0-ing everything that comes out a bit different than the usual, welcome Wiki 2.0! It’s a product called WetPaint that apparently hosts your wiki on their server and is going to run advertisements on the pages.
The interface seems real nice and easy and there’s a tour to show you around. I’ll take some time to explore it more soon. This is a reminder post. Just can’t figure out what to build a Wiki about though. Any ideas?
Tip by TechCrunch.
March 7, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Pretty interesting.
However, Web 2.0 people should be more worried about standards. People shouldn’t lose money because their clients cannot open their website with some browsers, for instance. WetPaint just supports Firefox 1.5. My Firefox 1.0.7 did not opened it. Nor my Konqueror. For no justified reason…
March 8, 2006 at 7:04 am
Good thing you noted that. I’ve read in a great many places people emphasizing this need for web standards on these new web applications. Perhaps (I hope) this is one isolated case of someone who wasn’t paying much attention. I think you should drop them a line and tell them about that. :-)
There’s something my pro-M$ dad always used to say in the earlier days of Linux when it was a pain getting your hardware supported (especially fax-modems) and we complained about the hardware manufacturers: “it’s not the modem that doesn’t support Linux. It’s Linux that doesn’t support your modem.”
There’s a big truth in there and, although web browsers should be as compatible as possible and comply to web standards, the websites themselves should push for standardization. It’s a convergent effort of compatibility from both sides.