Jeremy, Just a quick thank you -- sorry for being off topic -- to let you know that this newbie is using TiddlyDesktop v0.9 and happily cutting my teeth on Toddy Wiki with it. Thank you for all your great work on these tools!
A grateful, happy newbie, -- dg On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 12:51:04 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Ed > > The problem with TiddlyDesktop is that it is trying to be a desktop > browser, and users have the very reasonable expectation that it will behave > like one. Sadly, the nw.js platform on which TiddlyDesktop is based only > provides the basic rendering of web pages and requires features like tabs, > find-on-page, print, spell checking, etc to be implemented manually. That > means that developing TiddlyDesktop feels like a pretty thankless task: > however much effort I put into reproducing standard browser features, it > will never be as good a browser as the market leaders. > > So, the direction I’d like to take it is to develop the web serving > capabilities: in that configuration, TiddlyDesktop would be responsible for > running the serverside of wikis, and you’d use your usual browser to > connect to it. > > It’s also worth mentioning TiddlyServer which also enhances the basic > Node.js configuration of TiddlyWiki. See tiddlywiki.com for details. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:30, Ed <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > > What are your ideas for the TiddlyDesktop in the (near) future if any? > > I ask this because I have a problem, more of an inconvenwance, while > working with TW5 in TiddlyDeskTop. > > When I do research about a project, I collect relevant links in a tiddler > for later reference and I like to use the framedlink macro to open such > a link inside the tiddler. > Works brilliantly when website in question allows it. When not I have > to open that link in a browser. > > When I used FireFox before the FireFox Apocalypse, this was just a > matter of opening in a new tab, so the screen was uncluttered, only > the browser was there. > > Now with TiddlyDesktop I have a TiddlyDesktop window open + FireFox > to view said website. (And because of work in general there are some > more windows open.) > > Any chance that you could remedy this? > > Well I suppose you could make TiddlyDeskTop into a a sort of fuller-blown > browser, but that would be a major-major operation, a horrible task I > suppose. > So I can live with it, but I am curious if you could do something and if > there > is any roadmap of sorts for the TiddlyDesktop. > > Thank very very much in advance! > DoublePlus-Cheers, Ed > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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/c88fb603-1045-407b-9340-85d5fa26cea1%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c88fb603-1045-407b-9340-85d5fa26cea1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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/049ff5de-7234-4fe3-b44b-8e3bc517bd33%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
