My guess is that a number of new users will encounter this problem, so it would be worth addressing. A comment in the GettingStarted tiddler is probably sufficient. Something like "If the TiddlyWiki you downloaded does not behave as expected make sure you clicked the green download button and *did not* use the browser save page function."
Best wishes, Peter. On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:36:33 UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:29 PM, PMario <pmar...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> This TW is definitely broken. An empty.html file is at least 1.2 MByte in >> size. You file is smaller, so you may have downloaded it with File: Save as >> dialog, which doesn't work. >> >> Click the big green button "download empty" or "download full" and try >> again. >> >> -m >> >> -- >> 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 tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > This is an interesting problem that has cropped up since the early days of > TW Classic. > > In all browsers but Firefox, the File/Save menu option saves a snapshot of > the HTML file that was loaded from the server. Firefox, no doubt with good > intentions, doesn't do that: it saves a snapshot of the current state of > the DOM. In the case of TiddlyWiki, that means that the DOM elements that > have been generated by JavaScript are also saved, leading to the double > sidebar that you saw. > > Back in TW Classic we engineered a specific warning message that appeared > when re-opening a TW file that had been saved with File/Save on Firefox. > I'm not sure if it's worth doing that for TW5. I mean, the basic problem is > that File/Save isn't how one saves changes in TiddlyWiki. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com <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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
