WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki — pull request #152 by nrn (2012-03-11 22:15:57+00:00)
Title: [Experimental] Data test branch.

This pull request is intended for discussion, and probably requires more work before it's worth pulling, if this is even the direction we want to go.

This branch is based around a micro library I just made [dataDash](https://github.com/nrn/dataDash), the goal being to make client side data more transparent. This gives us the ability to see everything we are storing by inspecting the dom. It also exposes the information in a standards based way that can be consumed and manipulated by other libraries.

So I revamped client.coffee to use this library, and seeing what we were storing where I undid a lot of duplication, leading to a few improvements, including generating the show json from the current state of the dom when it's clicked.

Thanks again to @m-n for working on this with me. I'm not really sure where this will lead, but I'm definitely interested in input.