[twdev] Re: TiddlyWiki for Mobile

2018-07-13 Thread Adam Antios
Tony if you check the thread you referenced then you will see that I have commented extensively there because that is my main theme! Nonetheless I tried many themes on mobile and obviously the vanilla one. I want to mention, given how many people use their phones for things like that, that I

[twdev] Re: TiddlyWiki for Mobile

2018-07-13 Thread TonyM
Adam, So you are using tiddlywiki out of the box on mobile firefox. and there you are finding performance and user interface difficulties? OK Creating entering text strings, editing blockes of text is a kind of activity that small screen touch devices do not do well with, in many different

[twdev] Re: TiddlyWiki for Mobile

2018-07-13 Thread Adam Antios
Hello Tony, when I press the more actions button in a tiddler then I am not able to see the full window listing those actions and no matter what I do then without seeing them I can't press them. Also when I move through tabs in the sidebar in Android it is very slow. Generally the layout of

[twdev] Re: Retrieving a Binary File imported as a tiddler in tw5?

2018-07-13 Thread TonyM
Jed, Nicely done. Could this be generalised or branched to download as a file any tiddler as a file encoded or otherwise? I understand to do this you are effectively decoding and exporting the content of a tiddler into a file (without tid or json info), returning the file to its native state.

[twdev] Re: TiddlyWiki for Mobile

2018-07-13 Thread TonyM
Adam Antios Can you list at a high level where you are finding tiddlywiki on android falling down? I support Jeds comments and add there are solutions such as PhoneGap that try and be a dev environment for multiple phone platforms, but it seems they are always coding to the lowest common

[twdev] Re: Retrieving a Binary File imported as a tiddler in tw5?

2018-07-13 Thread Jed Carty
I made an action-widget to do this. The code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-DownloadBinary and a quick demo is here: https://www.ooktech.xyz:8443/Public#Download%20Binary%20Demo If this looks like a good way to solve the problem I can make a pull request. -- You received

[twdev] Re: Retrieving a Binary File imported as a tiddler in tw5?

2018-07-13 Thread Jed Carty
This fits with some work I have been doing so I will just throw together a quick plugin to test it out. I think that the best way to implement it would be to create an action widget and then add a 'download as file' option to tiddlers that have base64 encoded contents. Would that work for your

[twdev] Re: TiddlyWiki for Mobile

2018-07-13 Thread Jed Carty
I of course can't talk for the full dev team so this is just my reasoning. But my answer is both it is technically difficult and not a priority. First, contemporary Phones are designed to be limited. Touch screens are, for people who can use them (I can barely use touch screens so I am a bit