> Thanks Jeremy, thanks Eric
>
>> to create skinny wrappers around the platform's native webview control
>
> I wonder what the "wrapper" means. I mean, if I decide to write this
> by myself, I have no idea where to look and what does this do (with
> which libraries interacts etc); neither any idea of what native
> webview control is and wether this thing is present in legacy mobile
> platforms like Windows Mobile 5 in my case.

A webview control is a component available on some mobile platforms
that lets programmers incorporate the functionality of a web browser
into their applications. The iPhone/iPad and Android both provide an
instance of WebKit for this purpose. I believe that Windows Mobile 5
has a Pocket Internet Explorer ActiveX control along the same lines.

The wrapper application is a native application (.net in the case of
windows mobile) that uses the webview control to host a TiddlyWiki
file. It needs some form of communication into the webview control in
order to take over the "save" functionality; as far as I know all the
controls allow this by letting hosts intercept specially constructed
links navigated within the browser.

>> FireFox is NOT Webkit-based
>
> Oops. Now I know this :) probably I misread something in Wikipedia.
>
>> then transcribed back into HTML syntax when the file is saved
>
> As I understand this can be handled by adding a "semi-save" function
> which would write the state from the store object into DOM, but as
> long
>
>> Firefox is the only browser [I know] that uses a snapshot of the current DOM 
>> for file/save
>
> is true this is of no use. And
>
>> character-set conversions, discarding of comments, collapsing of whitespace, 
>> etc
>
> makes also some problems, especially character-set conversions.
>
> One more question: what do you know guys about the Local Storage? I
> mean, should it be hidden by browser from manual access? Developers
> say that Zetakey implements Local Storage so I wonder if the work on
> handheld can be done in the following manner: I work with TW, and the
> alternations are kept in Local Storage. Than I copy my Local Storage
> content from handheld to computer, apply some saving engine there, et
> voila - here I have a TiddlyWiki, like as if I saved changes on the
> mobile device.

It's not possible to transfer local storage content between
browsers/computers. So, it would let you persist changes made to a
TiddlyWiki document, but those changes would be tied to that browser.
It's more like a cache than a real storage mechanism.

Cheers

Jeremy

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