Hi Mark

> But I'm using Firefox! (FF47.0.1, Win 7)

Have you downloaded both the TW HTML file and the .tid file? It is referenced 
via a local URL:

./text/Alice%2520in%2520Wonderland.tid

> The text adds the phrase: "In this configuration" suggesting that there is 
> some way to configure your browser to make it work.

Yes, it’s unclear; the configuration it is referring to is http:// vs. file://

> Perhaps that phrase should be dropped? Perhaps it should also not point a 
> person to a tiddler that doesn't exist and that could only tell the user that 
> it doesn't work in some browsers? It's a bit of a teaser the way it is now.

Perhaps so! Contributions welcome :)

Best wishes

Jeremy



> 
> Thanks!
> Mark
> 
> FF 47.0.1, Win 7
> 
> On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 8:17:56 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
> Hi Mark
> 
>> On 15 Mar 2017, at 14:55, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki 
>> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> So, I click through to see what ExternalText tells me and ... it's empty. So 
>> what to do?
> 
> As the text implies, it is down to browser differences. TiddlyWiki tries to 
> retrieve the external text using XMLHttpRequest(), which doesn’t work from 
> HTML files loaded from a file:// URI. On my machine, only Firefox loads the 
> example text when viewed over file://.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Jeremy.
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