Static drilldown menu is not an official term, but it is self explanatory for a very simple and convenient feature. The application would be able to take static lists, and then show them as a drilldown menu. It is useful in order to progressively make seletion, and then change options as the user makes more selections. This would come in handy for forseably repeated decision making processes.
The idea is that this could be done without a dynamic database. Data could be taken from single tables in the wiki, or in static files that the developer could create without the requirements of SQL.
This feature should be usable only requiring straight and to-the-point syntax.
Use-case examples:
Compatible Linux Audio Cards
- Connection type
- pci
- PCIe
- usb
- ANY
- Kernel Inclusion
- Current
- Discontinued
- ANY
- Price Range (New)
- 0 - 50
- 50 - 100
- 100 - 150
- 150 - 250
- 250 - 350
- 350 - 450
- 450 - 600
- 600 - 800
- 800 - 1000
- ANY
- Last Years Produced
- Current
- Last Five Years
- Last Ten Years
- Last Fifteen Years
- Last Twenty Years
- ANY
Other next-level features
These should only require brief built-in wiki syntax:- Tabbed menus
- (without requiring users to create separate reference files, like Tiddlywiki does.)
- Expand / Collapse sections for:
- marked lists and nested lists
- marked titled sections / nested titled sections
- marked boxes / divs / table cells
- insertable media
- all image methods use the same base tag
- all audio methods use the same base tag
- all video methods use the same base tag
- sort-able and filter-able tables
- working simple pivot tables
- based on static data sources
Yet most wikis do not have these features built in. They are addons, and they required a disproportionate step up in technical resources/functionality.
