Thanks, Alex. Sorry to hear about the snow. It's been below freezing here in Memphis for days, but very dry (thank goodness, I don't like the shiny stuff much). Have a play and let me know what you think!
David On Jan 5, 5:28 am, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > First impressions: I really like it. > I'm snowed in today so will have a play. > > Alex > > 2010/1/5 David <[email protected]> > > > > > > > (I tend to get long winded, so if you want to cut to the chase, just > > hop over and take a look. You don't need to read all this to see what > > I'm trying to accomplish! Visithttp://tiddly960.tiddlyspot.com/and > > let me know what you think.) > > > I think you will see how inspired I have been by TW and its seemingly > > infinite customizability. I've spent the last few days tinkering on a > > TW project and I'd be curious to hear your response. > > > I love the way TW let's you very quickly and easily enter, edit, and > > format content, as well as retrieve what you've stored. I also love > > all the great TW tools I've found in various resources. There's some > > really cool stuff out there. > > > But TW stymied me on one issue ... I found it really, really, really > > hard to do any really significant customization to the layout. TW is > > designed that way, I'm sure, because its focus is on content, and it > > has a very simple UI that most folks adapt to easily. It serves its > > purpose very well. But I wondered if there might be an easy way to > > give users very broad control over the layout (beyond even the header, > > mainmenu, sidebar, and story). > > > One of the other tools I use often in my design work is a fluid CSS > > layout framework. It's designed for rapid prototyping and development > > of web sites, and it makes it very easy to play "what if" with > > layouts. Its weakness (because it isn't intended for this purpose) is > > that it does nothing to help you generate content. Most designers > > would "lorem ipsum" everything, or apply it on top of whatever > > existing static content they have available. > > > Since I'm one of those people who likes peanut butter on my chocolate, > > I decided to try two put to great tools together. My goal was to > > create a very easy way to display tiddlers anywhere on a page and > > create any kind of layout, and still have TW running the show. I've > > made a proof of concept putting the two tools together, letting the > > grid framework drive the CSS layout, and TW drive the content, and do > > it by using transclusion and making a very very simple and extensible > > syntax. This is something that someone with no HTML or CSS experience > > could work with easily, yet make quite simple or complex layout > > changes for whatever purpose they may have. This also uses only CSS > > and no javascript, though you'll see that there are plenty of > > possibilities for including. That's just not in my skill set. > > > I've only been around TW and the community for a few weeks, and I > > don't know a lot of the history, and I'm still getting familiar with > > all the tools that are available, so there may well be other excellent > > ways to achieve the same goal. But I would be very eager to get some > > feedback from you TW wizards about whether this would make some kind > > of contribution to the TW community. I can imagine it being used for a > > variety of purposes beyond just theming. > > > This has not been extensively tested in any way, other than quick > > browser checks in Firefox, Safari, Opera and Camino (all on a Mac). > > I'm too lazy to boot my WinXP to see how it performs in IE (but I'm > > not sure I really care :-) ). So check it out, download it, kick the > > tires, and tell me what works and what doesn't. I'm very curious to > > hear your suggestions and ideas. > > >http://tiddly960.tiddlyspot.com > > > Thanks for taking a tour! > > > David > > > P.S.: It is a testament to the brilliance of TiddlyWiki's design and > > the good will of the members of this group that I was about to go from > > and idea to a working site in about three days. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "TiddlyWiki" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%2bunsubscr...@googlegrou > > ps.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > --http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
