Yes! Lots of effort has been invested in protecting participants' information from the very start to the finish of their involvment, and afterwards when the data is collect and analysed. The experiment first had to be approved by an ethics commitee before it could begin. All information is securely transferred and can only be accessed by the researcher.
Yes, once your complete the last step (the survey) you plugin will still work. The plugin will no longer log any data.
Note: upon release of the Seaweed project, the Wordpress plugin will be updated and ready for you to download at the Wordpress plugin directory.
Yes. We would appreciate it if you tell us by terminating your test run
There are lots of reasons. Our mission is to see seamless editing supported all around the Web sphere - slapping a price tag would completely contridict our mission!
Currently the source is closed because it is only a prototype. We do not want to release the prototype to the public and then make dramatic changes after the user testing and worry about backward-compatability. Furthermore we want the project to begin on the right foot and there is a lot of work involved with open sourcing a project - it is more than just slapping on an open source license.
When released the project will be GPL-compatable. There will be an non-copyleft licensing option for people to use ~Seaweed~ in their proprietry / closed lisenced web applications.
The first release is currently scheduled for March 2010.
You can send an email to 
- it would be very much appreciated.
No, the Wordpress plugin is just one example where seamless editing can be used. Seaweed is designed to work in any Web page. Other great examples where seamless editing could be used include Wikis, Content Management Systems or online digital library systems.
People who rely on screen-reader software may have difficulty with using seaweed -
this is because seamless editing does not use native form controls (like textareas) or labels
(screen-readers usually rely on these).
These problems might be elevated by using some cunning tricks with form labels embedded in web pages - which we may explore in a later release.
LTR and RTL languages are supported. For developers: the codebase will be in english.
Supports most modern browsers, if your unsure you can quickley check by playing with our demo. If it fails, try and update your browser to the latest version. Tested and working on IE 6-8, Firefox 1.5-3.5 (Win/Mac/Linux), Safari 3-4 (Win/Mac), All Chrome (Win), Opera 9-10 (Win/Linux).
Absolutely. You can begin now by participating in the experiment. When released you can join our developer community.
GNU GPL version 2.
NO! Only users who have permissions to edit your blog will be able to edit it.
More specifically; any user who has capabilities of an author (and up) can edit the blog. The plugin will not allow users to edit specific post/titles/comment etc unless they have permission to.
Yes, all shortcodes are preserved.
The plugin is designed to work on all themes
The plugin has been tested with Wordpress 2.6 - 2.8 and Wordpress MU 2.8.
All saving operations are secured using Wordpress's standard security features.
If you want to ask a question visit our feedback page and post your query.
The Seaweed Experiment has finished! It has been a great success.
The Seaweed Experiment is going well, lots of useful data is being gathered.
The first public release of the Seaweed plugin for Wordpres has finally been released!
The full scale Seaweed experiment has been approved by the ethics commitee at the University of Waikato.
Pilot tests for the Seaweed experiment has finished. Full steam ahead for the full-scale experiment!