TonyM wrote: > > ... *I think the problem here is not a tiddlywiki, one but a universal > one, the digital platforms have not come close to handling this > ubiquitously yet. * > > Personally I think just as you can use an external editor such as > notepad++ to edit a browser text field, we should look to see if we can get > an external editor to edit images and save back on close. this allows > people to use the editor or drawing application of choice as it it were a > feature in TiddlyWiki. This allows the graphical and leading edge > innovation to be diverse and not our responsibility. "Horses for Courses" I > say. >
Being able to invoke an external graphics editor should be doable? Though I think Browsers natively are not as easy for this as they once were? In FF, for instance, with the switch to the new architecture, a swathe of tools for plugging into the "textarea" died. Having invested considerable thought on this I believe our natural > languages are weak on describing 2D and 3D images, and thus computers fail > to oblige us. > Actually there were also great tools that came and went because the design metaphors bridging visual and textual components did not catch on. The technologies behind them are alive and well, mainly within "image language". A simple example is Google Reverse Image Search. > A Graphical markup language to describe such images and elements of images > is overdue as is a way to convert hand drawn objects to computerise them > "beyond the bitmap". > Actually they exist. Images have held meta-data for a long time and the schema are extensible. The issue is the specific "Bridge" needed in the document between image and text. Vector graphics are far superior here in that their conceptual structure is a language of types already. Reflections 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/84ab506c-429b-40bd-af24-c1d0b47e229d%40googlegroups.com.
