OpenPortal: DHTML In-Place Editing in a Wiki ….. in 1999

<p>We are hearing a lot of timewarps back to 1999/2000+, and Brad Neuberg joins in the back-think:

Commercial Wikis such as SocialText and Jot have come out with in-place editing using DHTML and AJAX. Recently I was looking through some old CDs and found a project I created named OpenPortal that prototyped similar techniques…..in 1999

Brad details his journey and thinks back to his weblets:

<weblet:BUSINESS-CARD id=”Brads_Bcard”>

<H1>Business Card for

<weblet:NAME>Brad Neuberg</weblet:NAME></H1>

<H3>

<I>Organization:</I>

<weblet:ORGANIZATION>OpenPortal</weblet:ORGANIZATION>

<I>Phone-Number:</I>

<weblet:PHONE-NUMBER>212-853-7201</weblet:PHONE-NUMBER>

<I>Email:</I>

<weblet:EMAIL>bkn3@columbia.edu</weblet:EMAIL>

</H3>

</weblet:BUSINESS-CARD>

Are you reminiscing?

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It is funny how time passes and we find something in the now we did then.
Comment by barrie ontario business card printing — September 17, 2006

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