Thank you Mark for your reply. It saves me from trying too hard on this. As a workaround, I drag the link into a new tab to open in the browser. I could also drag it into an application in the dock.
SF Rajaona Le vendredi 5 mai 2017 15:49:54 UTC+2, Mark S. a écrit : > > Browser security won't let you access a local file. TiddlyWiki on node.js > (TON) doesn't have a file server, so non-embedded images and files are not > available. You could run a separate file server, but then you would to put > a specific address for your special local server. The address would be > meaningless if you exported the TW as a free-standing file (unless you kept > the file server running also). > > IMO, not being able to access local images and files limits the utility of > TON. I can only assume that the people using node.js are doing so as a > text-only application. > > HTH > Mark > > On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 3:21:26 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> >> I have used TW5 for some weeks, but now I have a little problem. >> >> I use TiddlyWiki 5.1.13 server on OS X with >> >> tiddlywiki /Users/me/Documents/tw --server 19671 >> >> I can open websites URL from TW5. >> I can open embedded files (image,pdf,...). >> But I cannot open an external link to a file on the local disk: >> - the link does not react when I click on it >> - open link, open link in new tab/window don't work >> - but copy link location, paste and go works >> I tried both with Firefox and Safari, with these tiddlers: >> >> file:///Users/me/Documents/tw/myfile.pdf >> >> [ext[Open file|./myfile.pdf]] >> >> <a href="file:///Users/me/Documents/tw/myfile.pdf">My File</a> >> >> I have other applications (Bibdesk) that can open the file in Firefox at >> the same address. >> >> What might be the problem? I appreciate your help. >> >> SF Rajaona >> > -- 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/2f6d6a73-5527-4686-b7fa-4c0887d9ba7c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

