Ciao Arlen This is one of the most interesting overviews I have ever read about TW!
I redacted parts of it to foreground the main thrust. Many thanks! TT Arlen Beiler wrote: > > TiddlyWiki is not a multi-user platform. In fact, it is arguably not a > platform at all. It is actually a syntax. > > It is a specification, not a library. > > It can be implemented in any language. > > Jeremy has implemented it in a Javascript library ... > > It could just as easily be implemented in PHP as a server-side multi-user > CMS ... > > That was the original direction TiddlyWiki Five was headed. > > Popular demand has since been slowly pushing it toward some Javascript > dependencies, but it is still a specification. > > It just so happens that browsers make it really easy to implement > specifications that only involve one user editing a document at a time and > not needing to serve it across the network. The network optimizations came > much later in the form of TiddlyServer and Bob... > > Anyway, hope that gives some perspective on the possibilities of what we > have in our hands. From someone who has spent his TiddlyWiki time poking > around the Javascript implementation and trying to make it do stuff it > wanted to be able to do but never got around to doing. Ok, > > * I know that sounds funny, but in the early days there were a lot of > stubs in the code and it was obvious that certain things were intended to > be implemented but there was never a demand for it so it never happened. * > -- 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/902ff950-c475-4967-936e-11cdce2e532a%40googlegroups.com.
