Why would we need a desktop version of wiki – that is an Glamorous Toolkit-style desktop app that displays federated wiki?
# Things Web Pages Can’t Do
The range of things we can't do with our websites is getting smaller every year as web standards evolve. In the short term, however, we can see some immediate benefits.
A desktop application can act both as a viewer of a wiki and as a web server. The same application can be used to browse and author wikis, but also provides powerful and flexible control over the delivery of wiki pages for other purposes – especially over the local network.
# General Benefits
There are some things that can often be done within the browser, and sometimes even better – yet it is useful to consider the softer or strategic advantages of developing outside the web browser environment.
# Security
There are very good reasons why your web browser enforces strict security policies, and for the most part, the benefits of running a desktop wiki expose your system to the dangers that web browsers seek to avoid. Therefore, for a wiki to work in a desktop environment, we need:
- Radically Better Security
# Summary
We envision a beautifully designed application that allows a wiki author to develop and manage their own wiki farm, both on their local computer, over the local network and online.
We see this application as a good part of an ecosystem of local servers and applications running on the user's computer or local network.
We assume that this application will be used to manage and create media, audio files, images and video files, which in the age of Generative AI includes working with low-level code and hardware owned by the end user.
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