In finalising a tiddlywiki side project and researching what I don't - that I need to know, I cam across your post - and your comment : "I guess the real question is what does read only gain you?"
As an ebook author, the integrity of the content is important - to me and to the reader. I could allow readers to edit the content, at their own risk........ but an in-tact tome is critical for several reasons - including : - An "edited" version of my ebook could be shared after a reader has made changes that I would not like to see out there publicly - I would have no control over the book's contents. - I remember my early editing of tiddlywiki. I was clumsy. I have crashed complete TW HTML files, I have wrecked and lost tiddlers. I have experimented with CSS and achieved cool and disastrous results. I have become so frustrated at my own ineptitude in its personalisation that I have slammed down my laptop screen. I don't want THAT as a gift to my readers. I am only guessing but I reckon 99.9% of the global population would be naiive to the charms and abilities - even the name - of tiddlywiki. And that's why I have created as many cues and enhancements of intuitive navigation and ease of reading adjustments as I can. As a resource for note taking, story building, wiki-ing anything worthy of curating, Tiddlywiki is a category-killer. As an editable and destroyable eBook version ....... no. My eBook is due to be released in the coming 3-4 days and am in the process of final edits including READ-ONLY-ing it. In final research, and reading your post - I am grateful for it - as it cements in my mind the need to make this project as congruent and flowing as possible for the reader. all the best - John Newell ( project " Spiritual Quest" eBook / twBook ! ) On Monday, May 12, 2014 at 12:04:24 AM UTC+10, Devin Weaver wrote: > > I'm curious if you download a document for offline viewing why do you > require readonly? I mean if the user who downloads the document changes it > then what would it matter. Maybe they wasn't to add personal notes or add > house rules. Why should they be prevented to do so? The changes are local > to them and do not affect the "master" version you own. And if they totally > bugger it up then they can easily re download it. If they want to "upgrade" > then can import a newer tiddler into their modified one and it should > overwrite the unmodified ones. > > I guess the real question is what does read only gain you? > > On Monday, December 30, 2013 12:02:12 PM UTC-5, NODEGAMRA wrote: >> >> Hi to all... >> I am loving TW5, I am a new user and I would like for some one to point >> me in the right direction. >> >> I am a board gamer and I am putting together a FAQs for some of the games >> I play. >> Mi goal is to be able to distribute the FAQs to the gaming community as a >> read only file, for offline viewing. >> Nothing fancy the default snow white theme works great, I want to keep it >> simple and lightweight. >> >> I have my first FAQ ready to go, but... >> I would like to hide or remove access to the inner workings of TW5. >> I would also like to hide of remove the sidebar, toolbar and the save, >> edit and control panel functions. >> >> Any help, info or links you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated. >> Thank you. >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/00a252d7-4594-47a5-819b-0bb8e10d7ab8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
