Additional thought,

On the Import page that appears after drag and drop allow a button to 
import external links only. Create tiddlers with the external links.

Just dreaming

Tony

On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 10:13:45 AM UTC+10, TonyM wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> TiddlyWiki seems quite capable of displaying external media but it seems 
> to me a second class citizen compared to drag drop and import. Have you 
> heard of a mechanism to  Drag and Drop but only create external links? 
> Allowing a relative link such as .\images would allow the tiddlywiki to be 
> moved with its media to a host.
>
> I would also like to do this with Hyperlinks or tiddler plugin sources, 
> drag and drop the link only, not the content.
>
> Just thinking
>
> Tony
>
>
> On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 8:52:00 AM UTC+10, RichardWilliamSmith 
> wrote:
>>
>> I should add that the issue of 'externalising' images to reduce the page 
>> size is a separate, but related issue, and there are pretty good solutions 
>> for managing that too.
>>
>> On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 8:48:54 AM UTC+10, RichardWilliamSmith 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Herb,
>>>
>>> Tiddlywiki can be used to generate a static website where each page is 
>>> in its own file. This is advantageous for the reasons you state and several 
>>> others. There are basic instructions available 
>>> http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Generating%2520Static%2520Sites%2520with%2520TiddlyWiki.html
>>>  
>>> but I am in the middle of preparing a more detailed tutorial so, if you're 
>>> interested, watch this space.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 1:42:10 AM UTC+10, Herb Nazhe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As an addition to my previous post: when I said "the creation of 
>>>> multiple files" what I had in mind was the possibility of breaking down 
>>>> the 
>>>> TiddlyWiki file into several inter-related sub-files, each one for a major 
>>>> section of the blog (in case the blog has a very articulated and complex 
>>>> structure). This is, again, in the interest of keeping the size of the 
>>>> files smaller, because they have to be downloaded over the internet. 
>>>> Naturally, the interaction and coordination between the different files 
>>>> containing the blog sections should be managed automatically by the main 
>>>> TiddlyWiki file, without the end-user having to worry at all about this.
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>

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