Ah, thanks! The plain html link covers my needs really well. -Robin
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Robin, > > The short answer is, yes, this is an area where TW5 isn't complete. There > are a few relevant changes planned: > > 1) The easy fix is to make video embedding work - the reason you're seeing > strange binary data is just that the video content types aren't known to > TW5 at the moment. However, fixing it won't be very useful, as only the > tiniest videos are likely to work well as embedded tiddlers. > > 2) When working with a server, making it possible to handle images/videos > etc as attachments, where the data isn't loaded up as part of the > TiddlyWiki but is instead referenced from source via ordinary <video> or > <img> tags. > > 3) The external link syntax needs adjusting to make it possible to link to > relative URLs, which is indeed an omission at the moment. The trouble we've > always had with TW classic is that it's hard to distinguish a tiddler title > from a relative link, and that problem remains in TW5. Right now the best > work around is to write a plain HTML tag (eg, <a > href="./files/really_cool_video.avi">My cool video</a>) > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Robin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've just started playing with TW5 after using TW2 for a long time, and I >> love the updated system. However, I've run into trouble when trying to >> reference large binary files like videos. In TW2, I would just create a >> local file link, like [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]], >> and clicking that link would open up the file in a new tab in Firefox. TW5 >> allows embedding of images, which works spectacularly well, but I haven't >> had much luck with videos. I can drag the video file into the wiki, but all >> I get is a tiddler containing the binary data rendered as text, which is >> not very helpful. I also can't make relative file links anymore, as a link >> such as [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]] just creates >> a new tiddler called "./files/really_cool_video.avi". I could make an >> absolute file link, but that's not particularly portable since, for >> example, my home directory is /home/username on one machine and >> /Users/username on another. >> >> Am I missing a best practice for this sort of thing, or is this problem >> not well-solved by TW5 yet? >> >> Thanks, >> Robin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/O1jWU6Akowc/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Robin L. H. Deits Robot Locomotion Group @CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
