Hi Paul

> Anyone, including you can do this as of now. But it would be a fork,
> require a lot of changes to work around the use of embedded and
> evaluated JavaScript, which are inappropriate in a shared JavaScript
> environment, and then have to track Eric's changes in TiddlyTools.
>
I am using "config.evaluateMacroParameters = "full"; " on (almost) all my 
TiddlySpace unstances - to be able to do things I couldn't do otherwise..
I've read somewhere that Eric has started the proces of rewriting all of his 
transclusions into "real" plugins over the next few months(just can't find 
the statement right now, however its quite new..) I sincerely hope that this 
"translation" (to some extent) can/will remove the need of having to use 
"insecure tweaks" to make a TiddlySpace just as "good" for personal 
production as a normal TiddlyWiki.... To me one of the "core-attractions" of 
TW is the ability to "fork" almost anything into what ever you'll need at a 
given moment. I'd also expect to be able to investigate other TWs and learn 
from them ->

Your TiddlySlidy & Jon's FamilyTree 
(chance is that I'm getting a little unclear, maybe even offtopic, please 
excuse me if I am. Remember: my perspective is not that of a developer....)
When I tried your TiddlySlidy for the first time, I was impressed by it's 
"simple" yet beautiful UI - and spent a few months trying to make my own 
version, wanting to add some things that I've learnt from using Paolo 
Soares' SlideShowPlugin, Mario's JQueryUIDragDropSelectSortPlugin and Eric's 
slideShowTimer (transclusion) and learn from your great example. 
However I came to the conlusion that TiddlySlidy is not very easy to "break 
apart" and reuse in a new context. Some of it's internals are somewhat 
"hidden" and dependencies are obscure (maybe thats just me not looking deep 
enough ....) - and I do understand your choice, if you meant to create an 
application that is simple to use for a "not-TW-sawy" user - and show that 
it is possible to create a powerpointclone with a TW, which has some of the 
characteristics that powerpointusers would expect from a similar software...
My point here is that I would love to be able to fork TiddlySlidy - or reuse 
any of the "killerfeatures" (maybe just some of the css)  it has, and 
combine them with options and plugins that I know from other 
circumstances...
One of the reasons why tiddlytools is so appealing is the fact that it is 
what it says: "small tools for big ideas". Sometimes, as a "normal" user I 
would like to be able to create a (maybe) big tool built from my own small 
ideas. 

I do understand that developing new tools needs time and an environment 
where a programmer can concentrate on the creative process, use all his 
programming skills, not having to document every step he takes.. (That 
*would* surely be a killer...)

However as a user, who loves TW for it's tweakability, I'd expect some kind 
of a follow up after a finished project like TiddlySlidy or FamilyTree - sth 
like a "do it yourself from a normal TW" - recipe. That would be really, 
really nice :-)

I think that most of the great community contributors of the past. BidiX, 
Saq, Paolo Soares, Morris Gray etc... has done exactly that: crystalized 
their plugins into some kind of repository - and passed them on to the 
community in a form which was digestable for nonprogrammers...

I see this legacy is "kept alive" when I watch the great work made by 
 PMario and Tobias.

Please learn from the history of the TWcommunity - I'm sure the community 
will want to learn from you. 
Please don't get me wrong... I think you are doing a great job - setting new 
standards - showing new ways to do things the TS-way ;-) Quite an 
accomplishment. Congratulations!!

As a user I simply want/wish for a more coherent experience, - and that I 
can use some (if not all) of my experience from using the community provided 
tools, to understand - or maybe even adopt some of the cutting edge tools 
provided by TS and Osmosoft..

I hope that I'm not asking too much - please correct me if I am..

Cheers Måns Mårtensson


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