With all the caveats (I agree with) would this method obviate the need for the user to install a saving system? I.e. click wiki and its saved auto into browser without any further steps?
On Thursday, 7 February 2019 23:11:47 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Further to Mat’s discovery > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/T_v5vSiCEDA/discussion> of > the new mathematics operators in v5.1.20, there’s another newly added > feature that has also been discussed for quite a long time: a plugin that > lets TiddlyWiki save and load tiddlers from browser’s built in “local > storage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_storage#localStorage>”. > > At startup, the plugin reads tiddlers from local storage. Any tiddlers > that are identical to those built into the file are deleted from local > storage. Once the wiki is up and running, any tiddler changes are > written straight to local storage. > > You can install it using the plugin library in a v5.1.20-prelease wiki, or > there’s an example here that has it pre-installed: > > > https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/editions/full/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fbrowser-storage > > <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/editions/full/#$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/browser-storage> > > You’ll see that even though the wiki warns you when you refresh in the > usual way, once you reload it any changes you’ve made will reappear. > > Browser local storage is not a panacea for TiddlyWiki: > > • Browsers limit the amount of local storage available to a page, > typically to 5 or 10MB > • Keeping personal data in browser local storage can lead to unexpected > privacy violations > • Browsers reserve the right to without warning delete data stored in > local storage at any time > • Browsers tie local storage to a URL which can lead to problems if you > move a wiki to a URL previously occupied by a different wiki > > The plugin isn’t quite finished; I want to add a more visible indicator > for when data is stored in local storage, and a way to delete any stored > data and disable it for the future. > > As usual, questions and comments welcome, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > -- 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/58dfcf33-f02c-4c15-ace4-16eaea3c3616%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
