Very cool! Been playing around with this using mGSD files, and they're working on both Windows (Chrome) and Android (Chrome). Considering how useful it will be to now edit my TW on my phone, I am pretty psyched!
Echoing other comments about direct URL's and providing the tool access to limited folders rather than the whole dropbox. Also, as a test case, I popped a 3MB file up there. Found that it required a good 30 seconds to download it thru the app. Not sure if the slowdown is because dropbox servers were limiting the speed, or if it takes that long for the service to download, parse, and display the file... As a comparison, same TW file on a normal webserver becomes usable in seconds. Oh, and a possible enhancement: saving changes to the same file took forever, as one might expect of uploading a 3MB file from one's phone. Not sure if there's any way to get dropbox to only send the dif's while saving (it does this on PC automatically), but if possible it would definitely improve speediness, especially on larger files. In fact, that would make it *considerably* faster than TiddlySpot, even with full broadband! Thanks for the awesome tool Jeremy. You do great work man. ~ Seann On Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:25:57 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/-/HNg8DRS1JGIJ. 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.
