> Almost all of this discussion is way, way over my head. I understand -- or > misunderstand! -- enough to make me anxious, though.
I hope you have no need to be anxious. TiddlyWiki5 is a functional superset of classic TiddlyWiki, no-one is going to lose features if they choose to make the transition. TiddlyWiki5 is about adding functionality. The discussion with Xen is about how we can add WYSIWYG editting. There are two approaches we've seen with other wikis: WYSIWYG editting of wikitext and WYSIWYG editting of HTML. We're discussing which of those would be more useful in TiddlyWiki5. In practice we'll almost certainly support both ways of operating. > My use of TiddlyWiki is not to make things look pretty. TiddlyWiki is not a > presentation medium or tool for me. It is a way -- an extremely versatile way > -- to create, store, organize, reorganize, and retrieve data -- in my case > text. I also rely heavily on the ability to export export raw text, free of > coding of any kind, to other applications for other kinds of processing, > e.g., for further tweaking of structure, moving from what makes sense to me > to what will be needed to help others understand, and for formatting. > > Anything that detracts from the ability to do those things would make > TiddlyWiki less useful and less attractive to me, tending toward uselessness > to the degree that it does so. As I say, there's no question but that TiddlyWiki5 will continue to support wikitext in the same way as classic TiddlyWiki. > Consider it a rant -- or perhaps better, an expression of anxiety, likely > rooted in misunderstanding of flat-out ignorance. It's cool to know how people are thinking, and what they're worrying about. But do bear in mind that I am paying attention here, and have been watching this group for nearly five years. I hope I've been able to keep track of the what's important about TiddlyWiki, where it's soul lies, and am above all concerned with backwards compatibility, keeping what we've got, and not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'm evidently not always the best at explaining things, and it seems the best way to explore TW5 design issues is probably with this sort of discussion. But as I say, I think it's OK to take off our "panic hats", nothing terrible is going to happen! Best wishes Jeremy > Regards, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- 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.
