> I am not sure the reason the folder is called recipes, I believe it has > something to do with how some system was set up while this was being > developed. I think you would have to ask Jeremy why.
Backing up, TiddlyWiki 5’s client-server HTTP API was designed to be compatible with the existing protocol used by TiddlyWiki Classic to talk to TiddlyWeb and later TiddlySpace. TiddlyWeb implements a simple model for composing wikis from groups of tiddlers stored separately called “bags and recipes”. The idea is that tiddlers are stored in named bags, and that a recipe is a sequence of bags. Then we make a wiki by pulling together the tiddlers in the corresponding recipe. The built-in TiddlyWiki 5 server is a degenerate implementation of the protocol, only supporting a single bag and a single recipe, but the TiddlyWiki 5 client has always had full support for bags and recipes. It would be natural to use this same API for the plugin library but of course due to our unusual architecture where the plugin library is static without a server we are not able to use HTTP. Instead we use window.postMessage() to communicate with the plugin library via an embedded iframe. The implementation is an attempt to tunnel HTTP over postMessage, and so uses the same URLs that would be used with the HTTP API. You can see the gory details of the code that talks to the iframe here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/modules/startup/browser-messaging.js <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/core/modules/startup/browser-messaging.js> And here’s the much simpler code that runs within the iframe: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/pluginlibrary/libraryserver.js <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/pluginlibrary/libraryserver.js> Best wishes Jeremy -- 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/5DAE5FCC-1E0F-4258-94D6-830A04B983E0%40gmail.com.
