Hi Mark I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that when you drag/drop a link from a FF > link (not from Windows explorer) that FF exposes more information. >
Ah, right. I thought you meant dragging and dropping the text from Firefox's address bar. > Here's what shows up after a drag/drop/import sequence from a Firefox tab > being used as a local file browser: > We could indeed introduce special behaviour for dragging links; the browser identifies the text as a link when it is dropped. The problem is that it's not clear what that behaviour should be; for image links, I'd want to create an external image tiddler with the _canonical_uri field pointing at the link. Similarly for mp3 links. But the problem is that we can't determine the type of the resource identified by a link without loading that resource, which we're unable to do thanks to the browser same origin policy. Best wishes Jeremy > > > Untitled 1 > > file:///d:/data/Proj/PhotoScrapbook/origs/%7B040%7DIM-3837.jpg > > So, there's more there than just a file name. The "file:///" should > provide a clue that this is a file (not ordinary text) and the suffix > indicates that it is an image. > > > Thanks! > > Mark > > > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:52:14 AM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Hi Mark >> >> It is possible to open a file browser in a firefox tab and then drag/drop >>> file names from there. However, they are imported as "untitled" tiddlers >>> and have to be massaged into usable links. Obviously, FF does allow access >>> to the file path name when dragging from another FF tab. So a good >>> compromise solution to my way of thinking would be if TW could turn those >>> drag/drops into usable file or image links. >>> >> >> Are you asking for the import handling to recognise that dragged text >> resembles a file path and treat it differently? I do wonder if that might >> not cause problems; a word like "jeremy" is a valid file path after all. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 10:26:56 PM UTC-8, Blake Blacksmith wrote: >>>> >>>> Instead of drag and drop being limited to full binary imports of a >>>> file(which bloats the Wiki and makes editing files cumbersome) is there a >>>> way to drag and drop a file that is within a TiddlyWiki's folder and have >>>> it expressed as a local file link? >>>> >>>> For clarity here is an example: >>>> >>>> I have a TW in folder "*Wiki*" and an image in "*Wiki/images/*". Could >>>> we make is so that when we drag and drop the image " >>>> *Wiki/images/bunnies.jpg*" into a text area TW checks that the file is >>>> within its folder (in this case in "Wiki") and if it is have the relative >>>> link text *[[file:./Wiki/images/bunnies.jpg]]* show up and if it not >>>> have the absolute link text show up >>>> *[[file:/C:/Users/Me/Wiki/images/bunnies.jpg]]* >>>> >>>> >>>> Right now I am manually inserting relative links but this is very time >>>> consuming when I must link many files into a Tiddlers text. I currently do >>>> not have the time to make my own plugin that does this but think such a >>>> plugin would extend the use-cases of TW to in-the-field/real time note >>>> taking. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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/d/optout.
