Hi Jeremy, Saving with the beacon added in a fresh download of TW works with IE 8.
Shash. On Thursday, January 3, 2013 10:38:52 PM UTC+5:30, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I've just realised that I'm probably wrong about the workaround breaking > saving in Internet Explorer. > > Could somebody with access to IE try downloading a fresh copy of > TiddlyWiki, adding the beacon as described above, and then testing whether > saving still works? > > Many thanks, > > Jeremy > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jeremy Ruston > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> What abaut adding the Workaround in the distributed version...It is not >>> so easy for newbies to fit it in correctly... >>> >>> >> The problem is that the workaround discussed above breaks saving >> functionality in Internet Explorer because the implementation requires the >> entire file outside of the store area to be plain ASCII. Another possible >> workaround is to put the beacon meta tag in the MarkupPreHead tiddler, >> which avoids breaking IE, but again means that the fix can't be >> retrospectively applied to old TW files that have a MarkupPreHead tiddler >> already. >> >> Anyhow, I'm delighted that people are using it, and will endeavour to >> figure out a better fix. For the moment I've added a link to this >> discussion to the TiddlyWiki in the Sky page. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> >>> Thanks again all Tiddly-enthusasts for your never resting work an a >>> happy new year >>> Jan >>> >>> >>> Am 03.01.2013 11:58, schrieb Jeremy Ruston: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Sorry for my belated response to your previous post. >>> >>> I believe that the underlying issue is still that Dropbox itself tries >>> to figure out the character encoding of HTML files by sniffing the first >>> few hundred bytes of the content of the file. If it doesn't find any UTF-8 >>> byte sequences then it serves the file as ASCII. >>> >>> The workaround is to ensure that there are UTF-8 characters near the >>> top of the HTML file, which can typically be accomplished by adding a meta >>> tag like this to the top of the file in a text editor: >>> >>> <meta name="utf8beacon" content="éçñøåá—" /> >>> >>> The trouble is that we can't currently add that beacon into the >>> default distribution of TiddlyWiki because it happens to also break saving >>> in Internet Explorer. >>> >>> Can you try to add that meta tag to one of your 2.7 files and see how >>> you get on? >>> >>> Best wishes >>> >>> Jeremy >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Shash <[email protected] <javascript:> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I am using TW with Dropbox. I had posted a few messages before about >>>> the weird behavior of opening TW with TWITS app in Dropbox. After working >>>> out a bit I could notice that my TW file with version 2.6.5 opens smoothly >>>> when opening using TWITS app but the upgraded file (to version 2.7 and >>>> above) doesnot. >>>> >>>> I am not sure whether there are others who are facing this problem. >>>> Any suggestions can help. >>>> >>>> Also I would like to know if there are any browser dependencies for >>>> opening the TW with TWITS app.Thanks! >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Shash. >>>> -- >>>> 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/-/otfWfIjvwfkJ. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >>>> . >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] <javascript:>. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeremy Ruston >>> mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> 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]<javascript:> >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> >> > > > > -- > 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/-/VHOhoHcC11gJ. 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.
