Issue? On importing a tiddler, it is not being saved in Local Storage and thus is not available on reload?
Regards Tony On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 13:22:58 UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > Mark, > > I am experimenting with local storage over here > <http://tiddlywiki.psat.com.au/tiddlywiki5.1.20PreRelease.html?param#>. > Anyone can use this as a platform to test Local storage and play with the > pre-release as at 2019-02-20 so have a look. > > I have no doubt it will have a number of great use cases. > > - One is simply permitting trivial search and settings the visitor > uses to be saved for your return > - In this case it is trivial if the settings are lost on return > - Local storage saved Pallets, themes, toolbar settings etc... make > the experience much better. > - Remember it only saves the changes from the loaded version so it > needs only the space required to store these changes > - Imagine if I had a "Home Loan Calculator", the user details are > small in volume. > - The Result of the computation could be printed so the result is > captured by the user, > - If the local storage goes (by my calculation very unlikely) they > can enter it again (if you do not promise they will not expect it) > - At any time the user can save the wiki in totality - they are in > charge of their own risk aversion. > > Issues Encountered > > - If I export an updated wiki to file, then upload and replace the > online copy with those changes, when I return to the URL it is still > showing the local storage items which are now redundant > - I need to find a way to purge these > - I Found a Way to purge this > - It is all good showing there are unsaved changes, but this would be > unnecessarily confusing to casual users. I have thus hidden this in the > DOcument Info tiddler. > > Regards > Tony > > On Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:04:50 UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Actually I'm puzzled what the use case might be. If you can't trust your >> data in it for long, and if there is no synchronization, then what are the >> use cases? Mostly I could see it in an environment where every other save >> technique is disallowed and where you don't mind if the data could be >> exposed. Perhaps a system where your only connection to the outside world >> is via email. Perhaps a mechanism for using TW for collating and processing >> information, that then gets copied and pasted elsewhere. What else .... >> although your data isn't secure, if you've ever rifled through your FF >> profile for information (like I did with NoteSelf), it's definitely >> obscure. Obscure may be good enough when all you want is to not leave a >> trail of files behind. >> >> Other ideas? >> >> -- Mark >> >> There's another product, Laverna, that uses local and/or indexed storage >> as well. They tout that they have an emphasis on privacy, because your data >> isn't on the web. >> >> On Friday, February 8, 2019 at 6:11:17 AM UTC-8, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >>> >>> PMario wrote: >>>> >>>> Some more info about the storage limits >>>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API/Browser_storage_limits_and_eviction_criteria>. >>>> >>>> If you take your time an read this stuff, you'll see that the behaviour is >>>> completely unpredictable. >>>> >>>> And in my opinion way to fragile for our usecases. ... >>>> >>> >>> I agree. >>> >>> I think there are a limited set of use cases where it could work >>> usefully. But for longer-term saving of a wiki it is not a good strategy >>> IMO. >>> >>> FYI, when NoteSelf first appeared I looked into it and found >>> understanding browser storage very difficult. NoteSelf is a really great >>> tool, but I'd never use it without a CouchDB remote database its constantly >>> syncing with. >>> >>> My two cents >>> 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/b1afb4b9-6937-4227-8b36-ee9238eeb160%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
