it's nice how tiddlywiki provides several measures of hackability, but when it comes down to it styling it is very difficult. it's hard to measure what is the best way to achieve a look if you didn't write the markup itself or all the default styles. I find tiddlywiki's default look convoluted and distracting (I'm spatially-oriented and dogmatic about aesthetics). I conceptualize a wiki where design disappears, rather than drawing attention to itself. (BTW hacked-up special effects like gradients and text-shadow do not make it any more usable, and barely more attractive. adding complexity to markup for achieving a style effect is a bad idea. CSS3 provides a text-shadow property AND gradients.)
I've been trying to design it from the inside-out to be more usable and its a nightmare. if I but more than dabbled in javascript perhaps I would achieve a better understanding of tiddlywiki's guts and it wouldn't be quite such an undertaking. all I know is I spend more time considering how to make tiddlywiki more usable then I do using tiddlywiki. I'm trying to catch up. the use of jQuery in recent versions is exciting, and the idea of modularization of functions. Its important for people to construct their own tools. will I one day be able to rapidly construct a tiddlywiki using a pre-existing, modularized library of rich javascript functions? is tiddlywiki backporting some of its features to jQuery itself, rewriting some of its original features using jQuery, or both? (sorry to get off-topic) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
