Hi Tony, Andy

Thanks for letting me know about the problem with unicode characters
in backup pathnames, I'll look into it as soon as I can.

Best wishes

Jeremy

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Jack Pommer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, August 27, 2012 3:18:30 PM UTC-6, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>>
>> Firefox 15, which is currently in beta but scheduled to be released on
>> August 28th, finally disables the trick that TiddlyWiki uses for
>> saving changes to itself (see [1]). From a general security
>> perspective, this is probably a good thing - especially if you've
>> watched a less computer-literate friend or relative deal with random
>> yes/no dialogue boxes; that familiar confirmation dialogue isn't much
>> protection.
>>
>> So, I've started work on a little Firefox extension called "TiddlyFox"
>> that can save files on behalf of TiddlyWiki.
>>
>> TiddlyFox stays in the background until you load a TiddlyWiki 2.x.x
>> document from a file: URL. It then patches the TiddlyWiki document on
>> the fly to have it invoke the extension to save files on it's behalf.
>>
>> I've tested the extension on Firefox 14 (the current version) and the
>> beta of Firefox 15.
>>
>> To install the extension, navigate to [2] in Firefox. You should be
>> prompted to install the plugin. Then, if you navigate to a TiddlyWiki
>> document on a file: URI you should get an alert notifying you that
>> TiddlyFox has patched the document. Save changes should then work in
>> the normal way.
>>
>> Right now, the extension is very basic, without a full user interface.
>> The plan is to add a proper confirmation dialogue, and to extend it
>> with functionality something like TiddlySnip for clipping bits of web
>> pages into a TiddlyWiki document. It will also work with TiddlyWiki5
>> (it doesn't yet).
>>
>> I'd be very grateful for any testing, and ping me here with any
>> feedback or questions.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/issues/101
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/raw/master/tiddlyfox/extension/tiddlyfox.xpi
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy Ruston
>> mailto:[email protected]



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