Good initiative, Xavier! Why not leave off the link to ExternalText, since 
there is no corresponding tiddler? Then if there ever is something 
additional to write, it can be put back in.

-- Mark

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 1:29:32 PM UTC-7, Xavier wrote:
>
> Hi Mark, Jeremy,
>
> I was just issuing a pull request for other clarifications regarding 
> External content/text. So I added a commit to reflect your discussion about 
> what wiki configuration means in this context: 
> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/2803/commits/aedb096d780e1c02d6cc626cadfebd197c2d157b.
>  
> Let me know if I should correct it further.
>
> Best,
> --Xavier.
>
> -- Xavier Cazin
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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]> 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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