heh heh had to Google "lorry", but thanks! As for embedded videos, I stand corrected. What I have been able to embed are slide presentations from SlideShare.net, not videos.
Dave On Saturday, August 3, 2013 11:12:00 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Bravo to Dave for trying this out - I feel the same pride as though I were > watching someone drive a lorry over a bridge that I had carefully > constructed for a horse to use. > > The upper ceiling of 100MB that you're reporting is lower on my machine - > after about 60MB the pauses grew unbearable. Hardware improvements should > push the upper limit steadily, and I suspect that there will be a lot of > room for optimisation here, too. > > With files of this size it might be interesting to experiment with > embedded videos, too. It won't work right now because TW5 doesn't know > about the various video file extensions, but it could be made to work just > as images do. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, David Gifford <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Last night I experimented dragging images from my hard drive into a >> TiddlyWiki 5 to see how many I could save before the file crashed or >> started getting sluggish. To my delight I was able to create some huge >> files by image topic (the largest one is 86MB) without the file crashing >> (though they did get more sluggish past the 50MB mark or so). I was >> actually dragging 25 photos at a time from Windows into my TWs and then >> saving them after they appeared in the TW. >> >> I added a StyleSheet that widens the tiddlers to accomodate larger photos >> on my wide laptop screen. On the iPad the tiddlers are reduced down to fit >> the screen, but they slightly overlap the sidebar. >> >> This morning Jeremy gave me a snippet of code (sorry for my lack of more >> precise terminology) that allowed me to create galleries of photos based on >> tiddlers tagged with a certain tag. So this morning I went and tagged all >> the photos in one of the files I created last night, and you can see the >> results here: http://www.giffmex.org/experiments/animals.htm. This file >> is almost 20MB, so be patient as it loads, though it loads pretty quickly. >> >> Things to note for those of you who want to try this: >> 1. I did this in FireFox with the TiddlyFox addon installed. >> 2. Dragging images from your hard drive to a TW5 file saves them as >> tiddlers with the image title as the tiddler title. >> 3. You need to drop your images into the story river area on top of an >> open tiddler. The open tiddler will not be affected. But dragging them into >> an empty story river will take you out of your TiddlyWiki and will open the >> images separately. >> 4. I got jpegs, gifs (including animated gifs) and pngs to work fine. bmp >> files and xcf files created monster tiddlers of gobbledygook that made >> everything come to a halt for several minutes. >> 5. For transferring large batches of images I recommend the following: >> Have your tabs open to Open. Drag 20 images or so into the TW. When the >> tiddlers are populated, click save. When the Wiki saved popup appears, >> refresh your browser so that the Open tab is now empty except for your >> default tiddler. Using your Open tab and refreshing each time lets you see >> when the new tiddlers are finished when you drag them. >> 6. Don't forget to save before refreshing so you don't lose anything. >> 7. Tagging tiddlers as you add them a few at a time is slow going, but >> still more enjoyable than going back and tagging the entire list of photos >> one by one after the fact. >> 8. Edit the Birds tiddler in the link above to see the code needed to >> create a gallery. >> 9. Dragging images from the web into TW5 currently will not add the >> images. It will only add a link. You can get around this quickly by >> dragging the image from the web to your desktop, and then dragging the >> image from your desktop to the TiddlyWiki. >> 10. If you want to embed an image link (similar to [img[]] ) in >> TiddlyWiki classic, here is an example of what to paste: <img src=" >> http://www.website.com/image.gif";> >> 11. If you want to embed a video or iFrame, just add the embed code, but >> don't add html tags as you would in classic. >> 12. I am guessing that after passing 100MB, TW5 files will be too >> sluggish for most people to want to use. But under that amount, it really >> doesn't lag too much. Try opening my 86MB file at >> http://www.giffmex.org/experiments/illustration.htm >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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]. 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