http://bill.welliver.org/atom/pike/FinScribe/Features electronic.alchemy :: Features 2026-04-05T17:00:45-04:00 Public.Syndication.ATOM (Pike v8.0 release 702) http://bill.welliver.org/favicon.ico http://bill.welliver.org/static/images/alchemy.gif Features This is an incomplete list of currently available features in FinScribe: Flexible Wiki engine using SnipSnap compatible markup Weblog functionality Multiple Weblogs per application (each page may be a weblog) Deferred posting of weblog entries (author now, post later) Multi-user capable Completely skinnable using Themes Per-object Comments Optional anonymous commenting with mandatory reCAPTCHA spam control Commenting disable for a document Access Control Lists (ACL) for secure control of objects and weblogs Extendible via Plugins (both wiki markup and application level macros) Many macros: photo album, rss output, category clouds, etc. Produces RSS 2.0 feeds for Weblogs, with embedding linking to RSS feed for Feedreaders and services such as http://technorati.com. RSS 2.0 Feeds for version history and comments for any object (in addition to weblog posts), as well as a feed of categories Includes an RSS 0.92/1.0/2.0 feed reader Automatic BackLink calculation and display. Supports TrackBack (pinging and receiving) with automatic TrackBack URL detection Supports PingBack (see http://ln.hixie.ch/?start for more info) Supports pinging Weblogs.com (or other services, such as http://technorati.com or http://pingomatic.com/for blog update announcements Category (tagging) support, including RSS feeds of category contents and individual RSS items includes category assignments (useful for services like Technorati). Attachment support Object locking (make a document writable by its owner only.) Object management: move, delete User administration User self-registration Skinnable interface using CSS Graceful degradation of AJAX features when desired (or when the browser doesn't support them) Versioning capability (new versions are created upon object saves) Visual Diffs and selection of versions Web based install GUI Pluggable article input widgets (includes wiki and WYSIWYG HTML via Dojo) Extendible using plugins (renderers, macros, event handlers, new paths, etc) Full text searching using Lucene (alpha quality) Caching of rendered content speeds delivery of pages by a factor of 10. Deployable as a standalone web server, as a module within http://caudium.net, or using http://www.fastcgi.com (tested with Apache and ligHTTPD) or http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi (tested with ligHTTPD).