> I almost abandoned hope that TW5 development will continue, so I'm glad that > project is alive.
Yes, it's been a long journey to get here, with a few distractions along the way. > But some points are unclear to me. > 1. WYSIWYG - will it be main (or at least fully featured) editing mode? Any > support for easy refactoring (I like how it works in Smallest Federated > Wiki)? WYSIWYG in the traditional sense isn't much of a focus for me at the moment. I think the success of MarkDown has shown that people are starting to see that WYSIWYG is not the panacea it first seems: it may be trivial to apply WYSIWYG to things like bold and italics, but there's no easy way to handle things like macro calls with WYSIWYG. I think of WYSIWYG as being pretty much a failure: look at Microsoft Word, where the price of WYSIWYG is that your formatting commands are attached to special invisible characters at the end of paragraphs. You get unexpected behaviour when those invisible markers are pasted or deleted. Having said that, I have taken care to ensure that a WYSIWYG edit mode could be added to TW5. The technical hassles are enough that I'm not keen to do it myself. You'll appreciate that rich text editors on the web work with HTML, not wikitext, and so one has to worry about round trip conversion from wikitext to HTML and back again, which is awkward. I am very interested in being able to edit transcluded tiddlers directly, though. The goal of TiddlyWiki is about improving the reusability of content by breaking it up into small chunks, and using transclusion and aggregation to thread those chunks together into a narrative. I believe that direct editing will make it much easier to work in that way. I'm also tracking SFW with great interest. If you're referring to the drag and drop refactoring, then, yes, that is very much on my roadmap. There is a strong correspondence between SFW and TW5. What SFW calls paragraphs correspond to tiddlers in TW5, and what SFW calls a page corresponds to a story in TW5. It's not a primary focus, but I'd hope to be able to use TW5 as a client for SFW. > 2. What about editing history? How is it supposed to be stored? Servers like TiddlyWeb provide revision support that TiddlyWiki5 will be able to hook into. I am also interested in implementing revision support within the client, so that revisions are available when working as a single HTML file. I'm hoping to use a diff-patch-merge function so that only the differential changes between versions will need to be stored. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- 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.
