Thomas, I must admit, i am not able to see the advantage of storing information > about a person or object in a link instead of in a field. In fields you can > store > > name: Joe > familiy: Doe > father: Alfred Doe > mother: Beatrix Doe > spouse: Foo Bar > course-about-hacking: attended >
Indeed, and in many cases that may well be a better approach. The primary benefit to relationships on the links, to me, is that if you want to have a clickable link in the text, you don't have to describe the relationship twice, once in the text and once in the field. Don't repeat yourself <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself> should apply to TiddlyWiki. I appear to have been the one who originally sparked this discussion, and I have to admit I'm surprised how much interest it's gotten. :-) I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if nobody wanted it, because as you point out there are few major advantages to typed links over fields, but I do think it could be a marginal improvement in quite a few cases. Question: how would HTML handle the additional relation information? Could > it be presented to users in a useful and accessible way? > This is a good point! Maybe a tooltip if there isn't already one on the link? > And a short reminder: HTML anchors (a) already can have *type* and *rel* > attributes – both are not supported by the link widget at the moment, but > there are indeed some kinds of relations already covered to be aware of. > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a > Interesting idea, but if I'm reading the Mozilla docs correctly, both these attributes have a specific set of standard values, so it wouldn't work for adding arbitrary relationships in TW. > One last provocation: How about [[ Joe (stepson) | Joe Doe ]] ? > You can't introspect this using filters, at least not easily, which I think was the primary goal of this proposal. -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7e5f3500-8fee-42ea-9854-11cf8f0af1c1n%40googlegroups.com.
