On Dec 6, 5:48 am, TonyM <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what is stopping my deeper involvement. Even just a fee more > inroads to understanding what a space is would help. Just a little too much > jargon is used. Small but regular contributions are what I can offer but > there is a big hump in my way which requires a more concerted effort on my > part to overcome. Perhaps I will get a chance in the Holiday season (here > in Australia), perhaps not.
Yeah, it's tricky. If you've ever had a chance to browse around the spaces of the active TiddlySpace developers you'll see that even after well more than a year there is a lot of confusion and debate about what a "space" is. For some starting points, if you are curious, see http://april1111.tiddlyspace.com/ and http://manifesto2.tiddlyspace.com/ Those show some ideas, but not conclusions. And even since then (April of this year) there have been some changing attitudes. At core a space is a collection of tiddlers, some of which are only visible and editable to people who are members of the space. When a space is created it has one member, the person who created it. That person may add more members. All members have the same powers, so subsequent members can add more members. Tiddlers from other spaces can be included, in a read only fashion, in the current space through a process called inclusion. The members see the "private" view of a space, meaning they see all the content. Non-members see the "public" view, meaning they only see public content. By default content created in a space is public, but this default can be changed. Public and private content can be switched back and forth in the TiddlyWiki interface. In addition to in-tiddlywiki, tiddlers can be viewed and edited in a variety of representations. In my own space, http://cdent.tiddlyspace.com/ , I use what's called the HTML representation, augmented with javascript found elsewhere in tiddlyspace along with some I've written myself. This gives my space something a bit more like a traditional wiki than TiddlyWiki, while still allowing me to go into TiddlyWiki if I want to do things that are currently only possible there (such as switching between public and private). I suspect this is similarly jargony to what you've already seen. If you have question, please ask them and perhaps together we can reveal how better to describe things. My own use and understanding of tiddlyspace, tiddlers and the web in general can be quite abstract and general so I'm not the best guy: I like to talk about free floating linked tiddlers in multiple representations floating in an open web. That sounds fancy but unless you're me is probably meaningless. -- 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.
