Thanks, Sticky Notes, for your balanced and gentle reply. Very helpful comments. Just to clarify and also to try to soften the blow of my earlier comment, I hope my comment about "complaining about the uselessness of software" didn't rub anyone the wrong way. It wasn't meant to, though reading it now, I can see why it might. I was just grasping for the right words to use. It seemed to me that people were using harsh language to express that they had no intention of using TW5, but their criticism of 5 seemed to rest on the fact that it is built for node.js, when it works just fine as a standalone just as TWc does. I meant useless in the sense of that it didn't meet their needs, that it was useless to them. And I don't think that is true. I think David Johnston's comment is more to the point, that it currently takes more effort, so it feels like too much work, but later, keeping TWc going will be what takes more effort. Blessings to all. My comments last night were meant to be a gentle correction and an encouragement, with actual examples of what can already be done, but if they came across as anything else, I am sorry about that.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:40 AM, David Johnston <[email protected]>wrote: > It is amazing how a single knee-jerk response to change can derail > significant development effort. > > Change happens constantly, the early edge of change seems technical and > often confusing to people because it has not been refined and they are not > comfortable with it yet. TiddlyWiki 5 is at that stage right now, it feels > like more effort to use, while TWc feels like less effort. However, with > refinement and development TW5 will be more capable and easier to use than > TWc and built upon a much better structure, which will enable it to take > advantage of modern browsers into the future. Whereas TWc will over time > become less and less able to perform effectively, it will require more and > more patching/development effort to keep it limping forward because the > structure it is based upon will be out of date compared to the browser(s) > you will view it in. > > My advice as a programmer would be to support the development of TW5 as > much as possible, I feel it is aiming at the correct mix of technologies to > ensure survival in the future. Jeremy is doing an excellent job from what I > can see of the code and with support and encouragement will deliver a > product which will supersede the achievements of its predecessor. > > > -- > 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/tdYDExdau6E/unsubscribe. > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- David Gifford Christian Reformed World Missions, Mexico City -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
