My first impression is 'nice effort'. I think there are some ideas
useful for harvesting for future versions of TW. But I have an issue
with the implementation for my use.
My primary personal use of TW is on Linux (and a separate
implementation at work on WinXP, but these are not cross-accessible),
but I need portability to other systems, which may be Windows or Mac.
TW does this extremely well; but this is a significant weakness of the
downloadable version of Luminotes (windows executable only). WYSIWYG
is very nice to have, but for my purposes, the portability is key.
Also, there are significant uses for me where I do not have access to
the internet, so off-line capability is critical. This is the same
issue with both Tiddlyspot or the hosted version of Luminotes for me.
I like the easy entry aspect of Luminotes, but Eric's QuickEdit
package works quite well for me. Perhaps adding a visual parser
plugin for the EditTemplate would satisfy the same itch for TW for
those who would like to have WYSIWYG at all times.
The database usage for storage is one of the more valuable ideas
presented here. Databases, whether relational or not, have an
advantage in quick data storage and retrieval that would be nice to
have as our wiki's get larger. Since TW is already moving in that
direction, at least as an option, I am quite willing to 'stay the
course' and continue using TW.
I am not wedded to a 'one file' approach; having three files
(.html, .js, and a database) in own directory would still be quite
manageable so long as it was OS independent. Copying a directory from
one media to another is not significantly different from copying an
individual file. Of course, I would prefer the database to be a text
file (not requiring binary tools for recovery) for archival reasons
(see separate recent thread). Since what is programmable in one
language can generally be done in any other, I am curious to see what
the cross-pollination of ideas brings.
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