Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-12 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
Hello Jeremy, I can understand this limitation on the fileSystem adaptor: it has to figure it out what to do with the files based on it's extension and turn them into tiddlers. But, in this scenario we already have the tiddler, and the tiddler has a type defined, so it should be

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark I am using FIREFOX 33 with WINDOWS 7 and TW 5.1.8 > Ah, that's the problem - the external text feature is new in 5.1.10. You can try it out at the usual prerelease address. Best wishes Jeremy. > > Thanks! > Mark > > > On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:03:09 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:04 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Is _canonical_uri supposed to work with text files? I can't get it to show > a simple text file with either an absolute address (provided by tiddlysnip) > nor a relative address. But it does

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
I'm using Firefox 40.0.3, which I think is the latest version. Maybe try downloading the content of tw.com from github, and see if you can open "Alice in Wonderland" in /prereleases/index.html in Firefox: https://github.com/Jermolene/jermolene.github.io/archive/master.zip Best wishes Jeremy

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
Hello Jeremy, El viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2015, 11:30:24 (UTC+2), Jeremy Ruston escribió: > > > while Firefox is quite happy. > > The complexity of the implementation landscape is why I initially resisted > adding this feature. As I feared, it's proving hard for many users to get > it

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Danielo Rodríguez
El viernes, 11 de septiembre de 2015, 20:05:01 (UTC+2), Mark S. escribió: > > Hello Jeremy, > > Paths tried (all from LOCAL - not http://) directory: > > temp.txt (same dir as TW) > ./temp.txt (same dir as TW) > file:///g:/data/TW2014/temp.txt (same dir as TW) >

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Danielo You're right! using the text/html type works flawesly!! > text/html has been implemented for quite a long time, but it's implemented differently: as an iframe. That means that the content appears visually part of the wiki, but isn't properly integrated with it. > > Jeremy, in 5.1.10

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Hello Jeremy, Paths tried (all from LOCAL - not http://) directory: temp.txt (same dir as TW) ./temp.txt (same dir as TW) file:///g:/data/TW2014/temp.txt (same dir as TW) ../Business/papers/2015/test.txt (relative path to current TW) file:///g:/data/Business/papers/2015/test.txt

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Hi Jeremy, In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about reading local text files. I wouldn't think there would have to be any security restrictions against reading local files -- I can use the browser to browse to and read local text files. Firefox 33, TW 5.1.8, Win 7 Thanks! Mark On

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5]How to use canonical uri field to point to local files

2015-09-11 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mark In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about reading local text files. I > wouldn't think there would have to be any security restrictions against > reading local files -- I can use the browser to browse to and read local > text files. > You'd be surprised. As I said in my message above,