Jed, I think the long term way / way of getting data into TW (for me) will be from a dropbox using node, not in one step from into a TW in the browser. I think its getting the plain text (written in the wonderful TW wikitext ) "safe" as quick as possible. I think the most resilient gene coming out of TW is the wiki text and how macros and trasculsion have crossed the coder / user barrier.
I was interested to read an article about producing static websites though a template tiddler (I don't think it was your;s Jed). I have been thinking about using TW for a new project, hosted on a "proper" URL. For the person familiar with facebook, flicking though stuff on a phone, they don't want to be closing tiddlers when they have read them, I think static sites for from TW is probably going to be the most sensible way of working with folk like this: they are scanning text all the time, swiping the screen, not clicking so much. Turning it on its head again, a TW site could be static first, then link to tiddlywiki webpages with their own URL. These TW could be small TWs but a more detailed and linked part of the static. The reader gets supper simple HTML first, then can get the detail.... a comfortable ride though the complexity. propperurl.com/hello-there.html -- static page propperurl.com/hello-there/tw.html -- tiddlywiki from which static was generated. I am staring to think that to be readable by a non TW user, static sites are the way to go... at least for the "first scan" Alex On 21 June 2015 at 00:27, Jed Carty <[email protected]> wrote: > I completely agree with the facebook comment-like tiddler creation as an > option, having it turned on all the time would be a problem, but that is > definitely a desirable feature. That is what the fast new tiddler tool that > Mat is working on will do, or something similar at least. > > The good news is that facebook has (or at least had, I haven't looked in a > while) an api for pulling data (posts, comments, likes, etc.) off of their > site, and with JavaScript you may be able to get tiddlywiki to pull the > data and put it into a tiddler. > The bad news is that facebook changes their api constantly, makes it > horribly complex and doesn't write usable documentation. I tried to write > something to get tiddlywiki to interface with facebook the way I made it > send things to twitter and failed miserably. Their documentation may be > designed to remove all joy from the world. I have heard from people who > have much stronger backgrounds in JavaScript and related technologies than > I do that they have the same problems with the facebook api, so getting it > to work will probably require significant effort and luck. > > Google does have a gmail api <https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/> > that may let you pull emails from your inbox, and I think that the data is > in json format so it would play well with tiddlywiki. > > From what I have seen the large social media sites are trying to move away > from letting people access their apis for personal use. For most things > facebook requires an id that they have to approve, google may do the same > thing, so even if we can make this work now I think that there is a good > chance that some change in the future would prevent it from being possible. > > Even with that problem I would like to find ways to make tiddlywiki play > well with everything, even if it is just through something like the widgets > twitter uses. > > -- > 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/4c912725-bb80-4d9f-90aa-02c51fe20cdb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4c912725-bb80-4d9f-90aa-02c51fe20cdb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALc1hYd_ywbpTwwVrdFM2Oh1yXvjAywaniN%2B_f3obiES1pXRHQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
