Hi David,
I can see the appeal of putting "everything" into a single TiddlyWiki
and indeed that is actually part of the vision of TiddlyWiki (if I am
not mistaken). Also I can see that in practice this is currently
impractical, mainly due to two reasons:
- images, pdf's and similiar "non-native TW"-files tend to blow up the
TW to the point where it becomes unusable
- in a TW EVERY tiddler is ALWAYS loaded, meaning that while you can
store a million tiddlers in a wiki, these million tiddlers are
completely loaded into memory and parsed out from the html, when you
open the wiki
So in theory your approach of spreading out a wiki may be workable, but
I feel that it don't plays well with the vision of having a single file
with everything in it. So while you are correct with your assumption
that the static files would contain a fair bit of javascript complexity,
it is in theory possible to make it a reality. Although, having said
that, you wouldn' be able to use transclusions across those static files
and the more features you add, the more similiar the "static file"
becomes to an actual external TW.
Here is what I think might be a solution to this dilemma:
There is no way around having images/pdf's external to the wiki.html
file, so ideally a TiddlyWiki should be a .zip file, with the wiki.html
being seperate from the external files. Then to open a wiki, there would
have to be a browser-extension that enables you to work with the wiki in
the normal way, while also loading in the images/pdf's from the zip file
as external files when necessary. Also with this setup you can imagine
having external tiddler stores in files that are lazily loaded into the
wiki.
The downside is that this would decrease the sharability of a wiki
drastically, as you have to have the browser-extension for the wiki to
work and you can no longer upload it to say tiddlyspot or another
server, without this server knowing about the zip-format.
/Andreas
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