I fear most public TWs - (and probably even yours!) - look like webpages from 1995.
You and I know a TW is not "just a webpage" but visitors see it as, well, a page on the web - and they expect pages on the web to have nice graphics etc. And *informative* graphics too, for that matter. This area is typically lacking badly in TWs. (Yours too?) Now, imagine if adding images was easy. I mean really SUPER EASY. So here's a plugin concept for ya: An image wizard! I believe that whoever implements it will have a sure fire success for a long time to come. This is how it could appear in use: In tiddler edit you simply type in e.g <<img>>. No urls. No intricate commands. Not even any size specs! Switching over to tiddler view mode, a *popup* opens showing your favourite image search engine, e.g Google Image search. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6TUAklmHKhg/VSrCakG7nqI/AAAAAAAARO8/qAbfaN8_DDM/s1600/ImgWizardA.png> There you do the usual Google procedure: enter search words, select desired image click the "View image" button to display the sole image at it's specific url. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EJ6UgLD6IH0/VSrChIw9pFI/AAAAAAAARPE/3zF6syEiUNo/s1600/ImgWizardB.png> ...but once that View image is seen, you popup also shows Width [__]px, Height [__] px and a button [OK] (which actually means "Use this url and the stated dimensions". ...and there are some default values presented for the dimensions set by you at some earlier time - but you can change them here if you want to. Clicking the button makes a Ka-Zam sound and when the smoke settles there is an image embedded in your tiddler where the invocation was made! <;-) Oh - "How?" ...Darn, I knew there was a catch. Ok, non-coder hypothersizin' here: First, the invocation for the macro or script or whatever it is might not be exactly <<img>> but it should be *super* easy. Maybe [[img]] or some other very easy-to-remember thing. No parameters paramter values stated in the invocation for it, that is key. Clicking the OK button pulls the url for the displayed image. I believe this is possible using techniques described here <http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/04/16/getting-the-url-of-an-iframes-parent/> This url is inserted into/as a field in the current tiddler (i.e the tiddler using the img command). Say field "imgurl". This is, by the macro, applied to e.g a _canonical_uri template so to get a clean embedding. The dimensions also creates fields imgwidth and imgheight. Adding another occurrence of the same command creates imgurl#2 or some such. Any wizards among us wiling to pick up the challenge? I honestly believe something like this could become a very popular plugin in TW. <:-) What might appears to be an elegant wizards hat on me is merely a simple conehead <https://www.google.se/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1360&bih=631&q=conehead&oq=elep&gs_l=img.3.0.0l10.98849.99450.0.101100.4.4.0.0.0.0.186.440.2j2.4.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..1.3.253.ArLsi5ePt6I&gws_rd=cr&ei=F8UqVfrjLMS3sQGOt4LoAQ>... -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/01889f94-724e-4ad3-911e-910acb7ab902%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
