> > existing websites or applications. It's worth noting > > that TiddlyWiki will always be readable, so you will > > not lose access to your data. > > Readability is nice, but that renders TW only suitable for kiosk use.
I think you may have misunderstood FND's response... I believe that, rather than suggesting 'read-only' use (i.e. kiosk mode), Fred was noting that, unlike other applications that encode your data in a proprietary binary format, the *data* inside TiddlyWiki is stored as "readable" plain text (with some standard URL-encoding of special characters), so that it is relatively simple to move the data to some other application if TW *does* stop working for your particular platform. Because it is text, there are numerous options available to you for extracting the data and converting it for import into a new application. For example, you can always manually copy/paste text from the tiddler source into a new application. Of course, that quickly can become tedious and is very prone to user error, so it is clearly not the most effective method. Fortunately, however, because the TW internal storage format is based on well-formed HTML-syntax, it is relatively simple to write a text- manipulation script that can automatically extract the tiddler definitions (including title, text, tags, *and* all custom fields) from the TW file (without needing to run TW), and convert them into a format that can then be read and imported into the new app. Thus, while TW *might* stop working with some browsers... your data is *never* going to become inaccessible. enjoy, -e -- 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.
