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title: "XoxoOutliner shows some signs of life"
date: 2006-11-12T00:25:40-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/11/12/xoxooutliner-shows-some-signs-of-life/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [webdev, javascript, xoxooutliner, xoxo, microformats]
---

# XoxoOutliner shows some signs of life

Remember when I [started writing about][st] [XoxoOutliner][xo] around 8 months ago?  Yeah, lots has happened with life in general between then and now - but lately I've been [working on code][wo] for it again.  As you might see from [my Trac timeline][time], I've got lots of new code checked in.  And I mean [lots][lots].

If I can keep up this bout of [serial enthusiasm][se] for the project, you'll be hearing lots more about it soon.

For now, check out the new static [README.html][re] and the [live demo][demo].  It's extremely bugful, but it might do interesting things for Firefox and Safari users.

[se]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/05/26/confessions-of-a-serial-enthusiast
[re]:http://decafbad.com/2006/11/XoxoOutliner/README.html
[demo]: http://decafbad.com/2006/11/XoxoOutliner/
[lots]: http://decafbad.com/trac/changeset/765
[time]: http://decafbad.com/trac/timeline
[wo]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/11/06/xoxooutliner-rewrite-coming-now-with-event-delegation
[xo]: http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/XoxoOutliner
[st]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/03/25/about-xoxooutliner 

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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087237" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-11-12T09:14:26">2006-11-12T09:14:26</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Wow!</p>

<p>This thing is such an improvement. I love that the README is an outline.</p>

<p>I think this is really powerful. I think an outliner should eliminate the need for a lot of rich text browser editors. Outlines inherently break text into small little chunks, which are stylable (and potentially URL addressable, for block-level comments). I think this thing would rock in a wiki.</p>

<p>Keep up the good work!</p></div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087241" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-11-13T12:59:18">2006-11-13T12:59:18</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Bravo! This is a great set of updates and works well in Safari (haven't had the time yet to test in Firefox.)</p>

<p>I've been thinking about using some portion of these tools in my wiki software to dress up outlines. I'm not sure yet... sometimes I feel like editing an outline  (well a simple one I'd use on a wiki at least) is quicker manually with something like Markdown.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087243" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-11-14T00:15:01">2006-11-14T00:15:01</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Rad!</p>

<p>Keep this up and I won't have to finish mine. :-)</p></div>
            
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