DWiki is the software that runs CSpace , including this blog . It'swound up much bigger than I expected and wanted it to be. This is sortof the story of how (or why) that happened.

DWiki started out with a simple goal: serve up (revision controlled)wiki-text documentation as HTML pages. It didn't have to edit thepages; we'd do that in a real editor in a real environment. The coreprogram model was simple: pages would be generated

I find myself quite irritated with CSS lately, because I have beentrying to be a good modern web-boy and style this place with CSS.

The problem with CSS is what it leaves out. Take a very simple example:this blog . Like many blogs, I want a two-column layout: blogentries on the left, a small sidebar about the blog on the right.

No problem in CSS: use two

Writing DWiki has been a very educational process. Mostly it has beeneducational about all sorts of irritations that I was previously happilyignorant of.

Take HTTP redirects, for example. (Please.)

To be fully specification-compliant, an HTTP redirect must be toa different URL than the current one, and must be to an absoluteURL: it must redirect to https://host/some/where, not just /some/where.(Perhaps common browsers all accept relative redirects, but at least