As long as we're listing, TD often lags behind the current TW release (for use with data folders). Currently (v14, 15) it is on a pre-release, which can be problematic.
On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 7:21:08 AM UTC-8 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > The nice thing about TD is that, as Mikel says, it's "elegant," and you > don't have to mess around with savers...just load it up and it works. I > think it's an excellent choice for new users. > > That said, a few things are not ideal: > > - Can't drag and drop plugins and other tiddlers from TiddlyWikis > loaded in the browser (this works for some people apparently, but it > doesn't work on any browser on either my Mac or my Linux PC, so it clearly > doesn't work consistently). Not a huge deal since you can just export the > tiddlers from the source wiki and import them in the destination wiki, but > it's a bit annoying. > - As Mark said, no Control-F. I had never noticed the lack of zoom as > I don't generally use it in TiddlyWiki, but if your vision isn't great I > could see that being really frustrating. > - Autosaving after every change can be rather excessive at times, and > the save isn't asynchronous, so the wiki can lock up for half a second or > so when you finish editing a tiddler or the like. > - No full-screen function (there's not a whole lot to hide, but the > browser full-screen also hides your OS's interface elements so it could > still save space on occasion). > > If you have Firefox working well for you, with an effective saver, I > wouldn't bother with TD. > > On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 9:11:58 AM UTC-6 Mark S. wrote: > >> On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 1:01:12 AM UTC-8 TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >>> DOWN: There is no direct support for Android/mobile version (though you >>> can maintain wikis in DT that can then be uploaded and they will be fine >>> Android-ed). >> >> >> Actually more like "neutral". There is no direct support for FF on >> Android either now with the current extension security changes. >> >> To me, the two big "downs" of TD is that you can't zoom in and out of a >> page, and you can't search text on a page. Any other extra flex for TD is >> pretty well hidden. Perhaps you could document how to use them? Currently, >> certain features are broken (? generating a new data folder ). I tend to >> rotate between which save methods I use. I've found that even a simple >> direct node instance has problems (I should make a post about "backwash" >> contamination). Timimi works well on the desktop. >> >> -- 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/a335f0f9-17c9-4aa8-b915-757e5d0aa562n%40googlegroups.com.
