The recent comments about the public perception of TW being outdated are of course inaccurate. For those of us already cognizant of the value it provides, we're more than happy to employ kludgey workarounds like portable Firefox to get that value.
However for those of us trying to get other, perhaps less technical people to adopt our TW-based solutions, it is true that the lack of support for modern browsers reflects poorly on the project, and affects the client's perception of our recommendation and therefore ourselves. All FOSS projects with plugins/modules/extensions suffer from the unreliability of the add-on developers, and only a subset continue to be kept current and viable over the long term. However it is IMO **critical** to a project's overall success that the **core** be well maintained, so at least the basic functionality offered by the software is available to users with "normal default" platform requirements. It's true that Chrome and FF's rapid update cycle, coupled with the fact (I assume?) that JavaScript isn't as well "standardized" as say HTML/CSS have created a game-changingly different reality for browser-based application platforms, but the fact is that we all must adapt ourselves to Reality as it presents itself to us. In the world of FOSS, every developer has their own itch to scratch and we mere users without the skills to contribute to the project's development don't have the right to complain about what is so freely given to us. But of course that doesn't stop us from acting as if we were paying customers, and that is also part of the reality of FOSS. So please forgive me for speaking my opinion forthrightly, and understand my strong feelings are the result of my fervent admiration for Tiddlywiki; I am truly grateful for the inspiration it has offered me so far. Bottom line: TW's ability to interact with external programs, remote storage, synchronization, version control, all these things are important I'm sure to many of TWs users (=customers). However, if development time and attention are devoted to such accessory functionality at the expense of the core being kept compatible with modern browsers, I personally fear for the mainstream viability of the project as a whole. -- 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.
