> Do you have anything specific in mind? Not particularity at the moment. I have however been playing with jQuery from time to time in normal HTML pages. Mostly adding things like sliders to make a normal HTML page perform like TiddlyWiki does naturally. Of course it is more powerful than that.
But an intensive investigation of jQuery plugins reveals a lot of them are of no real interest, them doing things I consider being done simply because they can be done making dumb HTML pages do things they couldn't normally and making no real contributions to capabilities that are significant. I feel if we were all as competent with Javascript as Eric Shulman jQuery wouldn't seem so exciting. It is after all only a library of Javascript that contains a small portion of what Eric knows. My hope was that we of lesser knowledge could have a 'leg up' so to speak through jQuery to approach his abilities it would be good. But if it adds another layer of complexity requiring translation in order to speak TiddlyWiki language then wouldn't becoming more competent with Javascript be effort better spent. Perhaps if now having jQuery in the core was causing an avalanche of new significant capabilities for TiddlyWiki that we could all understand and access one could get excited, but that may now seem a naive expectation. Whereas Udo's ForEach plugin simplified Javascript for the masses and brought its capabilities within reach of the many, jQuery seems a more complex way of doing similar things. Even so seeing Eric's pure Javascript translations of the ForEach capabilities is a breath of fresh air revealing the real language hidden behind the ForEach language. Please note I am just thinking out loud and possibly overlooking many things but isn't using jQuery just putting another learning curve between Javascript and Javascript. Could it be the seduction of more and more capabilities is putting a greater gap between TiddlyWiki and real world applications rather than otherwise? Is the engineering of the product becoming an end in itself with the final application being of lesser importance, and traveling expectantly becoming better than arriving? Perhaps Occam's Razor should be considered about now:-) Keep in mind had the Luddites been successful everyone would be employed now. Morris:-) On Mar 22, 12:52 am, FND <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought that you would be able to use jQuery plugins directly. Will > > every jQuery plugin require the type of translation to make them work > > with TiddlyWiki such as you have provided for TiddlyViPlugin.html? > > It depends, really - if you want something TiddlyWiki-specific (e.g. a > macro), you'll most likely need at least a tiny bit of "glue" code. > Perhaps we'll figure out a common pattern eventually and provide a > generic macro to invoke jQuery functionality - but that remains to be seen. > > Do you have anything specific in mind? > > -- F. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
