Hi Dave Interesting ideas. My feedback may seem discouragingly negative; working in the browser is subject to brutal restrictions and limitations which hinder the plans of mice and men. But over the years we've found many cracks and oddities that have enabled us to stretch the platform beyond most expectations, and it's through these kind of discussions that these opportunities are discovered.
The first that you are asking whether it would be possible for the standalone HTML file configuration of TiddlyWiki to be adapted so that tiddlers are stored in separate files that are loaded as required. The answer that it is possible, some of the time, in some configurations: * This is the sort of application that the Node.js configuration of TiddlyWiki is designed for. If you can, it's by far the most liberating and immediate way to achieve the flexibility you are seeking * The standalone configuration does (as you know) already support external tiddlers for images * The fallback HTML5 saver wouldn't be practical for saving lots of individual files; users would need to be using TiddlyFox or TiddlyDesktop * Whichever HTML file acts as the gateway has to know the filenames of the other files that it needs to access. The web lets us use xmlhttprequest to read files that we know the name of, but there is no way to enumerate the available files in a directory. We can get around this with TiddlyFox, TiddlyDesktop or conceivably via the APIs of a service like Dropbox > This is caused me to wonder if there could be such a thing as an html file that could act like a tiddler only in the sense that it also has an edit template, so that it could be edited in the same way a tiddler is edited. That way the central TiddlyWiki could act as a hub with external links to small, easily editable HTML files that act as articles or entries. This is the core of your idea: that individual tiddlers are not just stored in individual files, but in HTML files that act like a mini-TiddlyWiki that is capable of editing that one single tiddler. One problem here is that there is no way for the standalone editor to signal to the main TiddlyWiki that the file has been updated. Best wishes Jeremy. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:30 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < [email protected]> wrote: > For personal use, there's nothing quite as flexible as TW. But it doesn't > scale up without problems. > > Something like Simiplenote makes it easy to quickly publish and update > information meant for consumption by others. A published (static) page > updates whenever the corresponding note in Simplenote is updated. > > If you have your own website, you could have your own MediaWiki. That will > scale-up and allow in-place editing to authorized individuals. > > What it comes down to is that, one way or the other, if you use TW for > managing your data, you will have to use a separate mechanism to publish > low-overhead data. So the question is, what publication process will > involve the least hassle for yourself? > > Mark > > > > > > On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 8:26:55 AM UTC-7, David Gifford wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> I am sharing them via my website on Dreamhost. >> >> I will have to look at Simplenote again to see what you mean. I remember >> it not being the tool I wanted when looking at it a while back. >> >>> >>> -- > 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/deb0b1a7-3901-4619-809a-0b2b3b4eb5a3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/deb0b1a7-3901-4619-809a-0b2b3b4eb5a3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAPKKYJYRb%2BZq9_QgYkTp7GbdRaZbfTL6%2BavYbGO0xAnHeL5_2Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
