Hi guys. While using TiddlyWiki extensively for solidifying data and thoughts I noticed that TW has a big barrier for organizing any data: it doesn't and perhaps will never open all the files (all the types) through the web-technology-based engine, i.e. browser. It is obvious but it hurts if you consider TiddlyWiki as a system.
An example first: I can "pin" a pdf article to the TW document so that I can see it in the browser. I can not do such a thing with a doc or an odt file or some more rare thing (not mentioning editing of such files). The most simple workaround that I can see is to walk down to the OS level when such an obstacle appears. Meaning that a button which calls explorer to open the folder with my odt file would be ok. There is such a solution: the LaunchApplicationPlugin ([1], [2]; let me know if there's more recent versions). It can open folders and it can even launch applications.. in IE and FireFox only. The latter thing has it's reason: only these ones has correspondent JavaScript interfaces: IE (ActiveX) and FireFox (XPCOM?). The same thing is with saving: IE and FireFox can be used without TiddlySaver.jar (correct me if I'm wrong), so other browsers use the .jar saver. My question is whether anyone can create a corresponding "TiddlyLauncher" which could be used to extent the LaunchApplicationPlugin for all other browsers. Also, this would enable other plugins like ShowLocalDirectory ([3]) in other browsers. What do you think? PS Usage of such a tool can be of some security concern; however, it is "just" for plugins and also TiddlyLauncher can (right?) be written so that it would only open dirrectories and operate their metadata (like in ShowLocalDirectory). [1] http://remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html#LaunchApplicationPlugin [2] http://bradleymeck.tiddlyspot.com/#LaunchApplicationPlugin [3] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#ShowLocalDirectory -- 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.
