One more thing: Arbitrary, community initiated lists dedicated to *topics*, opens up to focus on *content* in addition to tw itself. I hear mortals care about such matters.
Think we're on to something... (...just great, another 3 hour sleep night). <:-) On Monday, November 24, 2014 2:36:39 AM UTC+1, Mat wrote: > > Must go to bed but this is just so cool. > > I just realized an iframe is only necessary if you want to preview the > tiddler/s. You're just searching a local tiddler with a list, in your own > TW! And I even think you don't even need to involve proxy stuff or strict > assuming the already existing import feature can be made to identify urls > from each item in the list. The structure could maybe be very loose. > > But if nicely laid out, and the, say, plugin author follows some standard, > including providing multiple urls to things like tumbnail and description, > *the > list tiddler could be designed to apper just like any other > <https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/search/?q=video&cat=1%2C0&appver=26.0&platform=windows> > > plugin site! And we have the import feature already so a Install button > next to each. And it's all in your own tw!!!* > > *...AND the idea can be used for almost anything!* Themed such lists; > "the plugin list" "the beginners toolkit list" themes, mathstuff, sex, > drugs and rock'nroll - whatever naturally arises. If Jeremy doesn't like > rock'nroll on the official site, there could be *one* single agreed upon > place place hosting all "unofficial lists". The only type of stuff I see > need for some thinking is for more collaborative stuff, like core > documentation to get a consistent style, avoid redundence etc. > > On tw.com, instead of loads of actual plugins or loads of links to > arbitrary tiddlywikis in the wild, there are a few tiddlers with mere > lists! Sure, there may pop up lists in the wild but that's no problem at > all because contrary to the current problem with plugins and websites in > unknown places, an item on a list can be on multiple lists! > > Surprisingly simple. As far as I can tell, the only real difficulty is how > people should add to the list and not mess it up. Kind of the same problem > as discussed for documentation in the other threads. But then, for some > lists maybe there will be list moderators who take care of lists with > subjects they care for. The rate stuff is added is probably not very high > for an average list so maybe the moderator could even accept list > contributions via email (as I think pmario suggested for documentation). An > ambitious moderator could even make the list tiddler snazzy with other > stuff for his little special interest group. And it's in the interest of > the special interest group to keep their favourite list updated. > > Hm, why didn't we come up with this a long time ago. Just a few silly list > that someone moderates and gives to Jeremy so it can be downloaded from > tw.com. Am I missing something? > > <:-) > > > On Monday, November 24, 2014 12:10:33 AM UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote: >> >> Hi Mat, >> >> While doing baby-steps in terms of actual traveling and >> destination-like-specs... your idea definitely has it's appeal... stuffing >> metadata >> into the core (or even fetching them from someplace) and use some >> remote-rendering voodoo to fetch the applicable contents either via >> intermediary iframes or directly, in the sense of what Jeremy suggested, as >> a proxy-server-kind-of thing to request and access actual contents. >> >> The critical part being the actual MetaData authoring process... which >> could be yet anohter GitHub repo with a meaningful folder structure and a >> chron-job that mangles all the meta-bits every now and then into a >> *tiddlymeta.json* type of thing to be loaded / updated by the click of a >> button. >> >> Best wishes, Tobias. >> > > -- 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.
