Ciao PMario Thanks for the notes related to performance.
PMario wrote: > > - spell-checking is built into browsers as plugins for a reason ... The > needed databases are huge in size and the algorithms are language specific > My comment was just a "riff". I agree spell-check should be browser driven. I was a bit confusing as I wasn't differentiating TW from a final "functional whole"--a writer's tool, regardless of whether its just TW or TW Plus Other Things. > - word-counting is a plugin, ... that can show approximation because > wikitext also contains "meta-text" eg: transclusions, which makes it hard > to be precise. > Agreed. But on things like Twitter posts which are plain text its excellent. Thomas Elmiger made a neat plugin that not just counts but counts with indication of when a "target number" is reached by the counter changing colour when it reaches a target number. That is real added value for coping with the 280 character limit of Twitter. Its also very good for screenplays which are nearly totally plain text and where counting matters a lot since timing is related to "page length" (the convention is 1 minute of film = 1 page of script). So whilst I agree there are downsides (for instance, for Twitter, an URL is always counted as 20 characters regardless of its actual length) , for some writing scenarios its extremely useful to have counting. - fuzzy search is language specific and needs tools that either need some > preprocessing, which has a performance impact or it introduces complexity > to the user experience. > Right. I'm still playing with this. Search gets quite complex across languages. On the other hand some scenarios benefit. In particular, in may case, I often just need a more "regex" type search of the full text field than default search offers. > All in all a wiki with all the features will be bloated at least. ... So a > single page app lke TW has to go for a compromise between "I want it all" > and "It should be usable" > I broadly agree. But I also disagree in the sense that SOME use situations a replete set of plugins might work well. I think its, finally, about testing empirically case by case to be sure? Thanks for your post! It gave me a chance to say a bit more that I think makes sense too. Best wishes Josiah -- 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/c4cd56bc-ba62-41d7-aaa7-1ac8685da43d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
