> Not as up-to-date on developments here as in the past, so may be completely > off-base, but are you talking about a TW-specific browser? Something that has > the advantages of a single-file browser-based wiki without all the > compatibility issues with the continually evolving generic browsers?
Almost. The situation is that all browsers are actually split into two parts a "rendering engine" and the "chrome" around the edge of it (ie, the user interface). So, Google Chrome and Apple Safari both use the same WebKit rendering engine, with their own UI chrome around it. Firefox is based on a rendering engine called Gecko. So, the idea is to take the raw rendering engine and wrap it up with a custom user interface that serves the purposes of TiddlyWiki, without being burdened by browser-specifics that aren't relevant (eg bookmark sync). The second thing you mentioned, working around the compatibility issues of browsers, is actually accomplished by using node.js to run the TiddlyWiki core as a little mini webserver. The node.js app is allowed to save things to the file system, and so the browser gets the same ability by talking to it over HTTP. As a workaround it's pretty good, because there is no hackery involved, it's an entirely conventional way to build applications. So it gives us a solid fallback, of a useful and powerful configuration that is independent of browser quirks. It doesn't mean the end of the line for the single file configuration of TiddlyWiki. It will always work well as a read-only distribution format, and recent experiments suggest that there is a lot of life in the various hacks to maintain the ability to save locally. I'll try to draw some pictures of these configurations, I realise that it's all a bit confusing, Best wishes Jeremy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > [email protected] > > "Every moment is unique and discrete." > > Eknath Eswaran > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
