Hi Pascal > One of the ideas behind Tiddlywiki is to be portable and all > inclusive, free of any link to a server. It is a matter of opinion but > Access pretty much is the same (at least to me) to anyone who doesn't > (care to) know how to code in PHP/MySQL. Combining the two seems > interesting to me if only for the mere pleasure of adding a > supplementary feature to Tiddlywiki. To me portability is a variety of things - OS'independance - Windows, Mac and Linux agnosticism, Open Source - freedom to "port" install anywhere you like, Online, offline, on a friends maschine, on a separate disc - on your own server, etc etc... ools Microsoft doesn't deliver any of these "portabilities" - however Open Office does. I would be very happy to see some kind of plugin which delivers closer interoperation, either as backend ie WriterTools for Open Office, TiddlyWikiPlugin for OpenOffice or even a frontend for Open Office Database (Base).... Open Office exists as a portable package, which you can download from portableapps.com (if you'd like to investigate without installing in Windows).
Please don't get me wrong - I work with proprietary software every day (profesionally)- however TiddlyWiki is a an opensource project which give you freedom to be creative even down to its sourcecode, why invest good work and time on delivering a frontend for proprietary software, which won't give you anything back?? - I don't get it?... I hope my lack of enthusiasm for a MS-plugin-project hasn't made you give up making a good wikiexperience for your collegues, I just wanted to point out that I think that TidddlyWiki, and the TiddlyWiki community should strive for communication with other open source projects and open standards... MS people get paid for keeping the good ideas to themselves, We "payback" to eachother with good ideas ... Working with a local database as a backend IS a good idea - helping MS to earn more money is not! Open Office is Open Source... Get my point? Best wishes Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
