Marc Clifton wrote:
I'd like Word to read my mind, what does that say about Word that I have to write my own mind reading software?
In the case of Word (and any other Microsoft product), I'd consider that a feature. M$ is already far too ingrained into my business as it stands. There's a joke in here somewhere about the new unannounced Microsoft Mind Reading Server. Okay ... enough kidding.
Marc Clifton wrote:
'm not talking screen scraper.
I'm interested in seeing "deltas" for both code and article text so that means scraping the article text from the HTML. I'm guessing you'd have to also scrape the source code download URL from the article text too.
Marc Clifton wrote:
Out of curiosity, why the interest in past revisions?
Here's an extreme example: someone publishes an article and then revokes the entire article. I might get lucky and find an older draft in the Google cache. A more common example: I download the code for an article, play with it a bit and then delete it because I don't have an immediate need. Months or years later - I see the article updated. What changed? Sometimes I can get a clue from the article comments but nothing exact. For sf.net, access to past revisions is more obvious in the context of regression. Latest version "x" exhibits some bug but older revision "y" doesn't.
modified on Monday, January 14, 2008 10:06:42 PM
