LOL, I didn't mean to make it sound like it was headed toward PHP! I meant it was headed toward being a stand-alone specification with an implementation in Javascript, but which could be re-implemented in a different language due to the wikitext characteristics. It still could be but NodeJS is mature enough that another implementation will probably never be needed. Good summary.
Arlen On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:11 PM TiddlyTweeter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/902ff950-c475-4967-936e-11cdce2e532a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJ1vdSSV-WSLNjmohqsfKMbD9rOgbn_Mp6cspHi8KDJj4oz7Vg%40mail.gmail.com.
