I would say there's a usability *loss*. As soon as you get beyond simple list loops, there's no clear way forward.
Also, there's tons of documentation on JS. Standard procedures and techniques. Take a look at recent post https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/IpKqoJbs35c and explain how you would do that with the existing toolkit. I don't understand the security reference. What will prevent potentially malicious users from inserting their own widgets, filters, or js macros? The analogy with assembler doesn't really work. Assembler is a *lot *harder to use than javascript. Javascript is possibly a *little* harder than TW5-code, but it has massive support and almost none of the cul-de-sacs of TW5. Thanks! On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 11:09:15 AM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote: > > There is a huge usability gain, you don't need to know any javascript to > make something new and useful with tiddlywiki. I made most of my earlier > plugins that I still use before I knew any javascript. > If it were just a neat javascript page that you used javascript to make > things in than I never would have played with it. > The reusability and simplicity of widgets is amazing, wikitext abstracts > out a lot of the overhead to give only the parts that are specifically > useful. Yes there are things that are missing but that isn't a downside of > the approach, that just means we aren't done making everything yet. > Also there are huge gains in security, I would never put Bob online if it > had inline javascript like tiddlywiki classic. > > Yes, you can do less with vanilla tiddlywiki than you can with javascript, > but you can do more with assembler than you can with javascript, but I am > not going to write a web server in assembly despite the potential > performance gains. > -- 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/5240cf2f-0111-45c9-ab79-17839c7f529a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
