I've been developing a new service that enables you to directly edit TiddlyWiki documents stored in your Dropbox account from any browser. It lets you walk up to any browser, navigate to a simple URL, sign into Dropbox and then immediately open TiddlyWiki files and save changes. Best of all, the app is a single 13KB HTML file that runs entirely in the browser, so your data never leaves the secure connection between Dropbox and the browser.
To try it out, visit: http://dropbox.tiddlywiki.com/ You will be redirected to the secure app URL (starting https://dl-web.dropbox.com/spa/), and from there almost immediately redirected again to Dropbox, where you can sign in and grant access to the app. You are then redirected back to the app and presented with a list of the contents of your Dropbox. You can navigate into folders to locate TiddlyWiki *.html files. Clicking on a TiddlyWiki file loads the TiddlyWiki up into the browser and modifies it so that the "save changes" button saves the file back to Dropbox. I've tested TiddlyWiki in the Sky on desktop browsers, the iPhone and iPad, and it seems to work well for the TiddlyWiki documents I've tried. Do give it a try, but please exercise caution for the moment, and check that your saves have worked correctly. Dropbox's ability to roll back to earlier versions of your files should protect you against any lurking bugs. Issues: * The online version of the TiddlyWiki will not have access to other files stored in the same folder (eg images) * No progress indication during saving * The hacks in here are unlikely to work with plugins that modify the file saving mechanism Acknowledgements: Thanks to Victor Costan at Dropbox who first posted about their new JavaScript API that permits TiddlyWiki in the Sky to work: https://tech.dropbox.com/?p=345 -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
