TT & Mario, *TT* I see how this could confuse someone, however the reason it was not stated is I believe because "wikitext is what tiddlywiki is", there is not harm however making it explicit. A vast majority of new users or casual users of someone elses wiki may never need to know this.
*Mario,* Some new users know HTML and some do not. So for some HTML is the easy way to start. Mixing html and wikitext should only be done, if there is no other way. So > I see no problem for new users. They shouldn't do it anyway! Whilst this may be good advice for new users I do not think it good advice in the long run. I would like to see us maintain the maximum compatibility with html because it is native to the browser, we can source a lot of content in html and it is a full and sophisticated set of possibilities tiddlywiki is in a position to leverage, just as we do with CSS. I would love to see a set of primitives (Macros, Widgets and Wikitext) that can replace javascript as used in current basic HTML so that the difference was minimised. By primitives I mean not needing to create somewhat bespoke widgets to provide access a html function but methods or widget that may assist in providing more access to any html function. I personally use html tables rather than wikitext for large, complex and nested tables because it is far more extensible, of course I use widgets within it. It is tiddlywikis use of global standards that makes it so powerful. As my nasient understanding grows I wonder why we could not allow a richer use of the HTML DOM independently from the tiddlywiki one, a kind of sandboxed DOM knowing full well it stands to the side of tiddlywikis DOM. An example may be importing a HTML form with the ability to submit it in a way that tiddlywiki can build a tiddler populated by the form. This would be a rapid way to build tiddlywiki solutions from extensive HTML resources. Increasing tiddlywikis integration with html, from a designers view point rather than a developers view point, increases the ability for tiddlywiki to interact with the rest of the internet, or the "world" for that matter. Regards Tony On Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 11:26:15 PM UTC+11, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > PMario wrote: >> >> @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >>> >>> >>> - It took me 6 months to realise that a "blank" ContentType is >>> actually "text/vnd.tiddlywiki" (yes?). BTW, WHY can it be BLANK? >>> >>> It can be blank, because TW uses sensible defaults for "missing" >> parameters. The default type for every tiddler is text/vnd.tiddlywiki. >> That's it. >> >> from TW-docs >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Creating%20and%20editing%20tiddlers> >> > > I have NO problem with that. > > I have a problem that a NEW user would get NO SIGNAL that THAT IS IT. > > How would they know? > > Best wishes > TT > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e09f6125-7c80-4e8a-b66d-b445737e49ad%40googlegroups.com.
