>> Yes, that makes sense. Currently, the new parser is text/x-tiddlywiki >> and the old parser is text/x-tiddlywiki-old. > > > Over the longer term that's probably not ideal. On tiddlyspace.com > there are some very large number of tiddlers extant which are already > treated as text/x-tiddlywiki. > > That is: The currently assumed MIME type for tiddlywiki 2 tiddlers is > text/x-tiddlywiki, so tiddlywiki 5 tiddlers, in a different format, > probably want a different type.
Yes, to start with I had the new parser as text/x-tiddlywiki-new, but I'm not too keen on that, because I want to look forwards to the new syntax being 100 times more popular than the old, and the old to be consigned to being a historical footnote. I suppose calling it text/x-tiddlywiki5 might be better. One possibility might be to use text/x-tiddlywiki5 for the new format, and text/x-tiddlywiki for the old, but to deprecate the latter in favour of text/x-tiddlywiki2. Then we could declare that at some future coordinated release of TiddlyWiki and TiddlyWeb we'll switch the default interpretation of text/x-tiddlywiki to text/x-tiddlywiki5. > That will be cool and useful, but for as long as tiddlywiki2 remains > the primary entry point that will need support. Log analysis shows > that thus far exploration of paths other than the default entry point > is very very very very light. Right, I'd agree that whatever we do we need to preserve tiddlywiki2 spaces for the indefinite future. But I'd hope that tw5 spaces will outnumber the tw2 ones quite quickly. > Unless of course the wikifier for the newer tw5 syntax gets backported > (as a plugin) to tw2. Which would be handy. I think it would also break rather a lot of things. I'd hate to have to support tw2/5 frankenstein spaces as well as tw2 spaces and tw5 spaces; surely it's simpler to focus on good support for both of the latter? I'd love quite soon to be able to offer a link on tiddlywiki.com/tiddlywiki5 that takes people to a TiddlySpace page that enables them to register if necessary, and create a tw5 space in a single step. Done right, this would be the smoothest easiest path for a visitor to tiddlywiki.com to get up and running. As I've said, my goal with tw5 is to make it much, much simpler and easier to use. My hope is that this can make the thing 100 times more popular than in the past. tw2 users will be our valued pioneers that helped shape the product, but the future will belong to tw5. None of that undermines the commitment above to keeping tw2 working, but it's helpful for me in figuring out where to put my attention. Best wishes Jeremy > > -- > Chris Dent http://burningchrome.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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
