Hi Arlen, Also, the idea of a backstage is so you can do some stuff in case something > goes really awry with the css and html, but maybe there is another way of > doing that. What I liked about the backstage was that it was outside of > the content wrapper, so any changes to the CW wouldn't affect it.
I sure promote some sort of recovery console / basic editor like TiddlerTweaker... to be able to fix things even when the overall TiddlyWiki is broken. However, the backstage area of a classic TiddlyWiki does not actually work as you suggest. Meaning, if your Wiki breaks, chances are that your backstage area does too. The TiddlySpace backstage may work as you suggest but as of now, that's a different thing. All features found in the backstage area of a classic TiddlyWiki could easily be displayed using the actual (shadow) tiddlers that provide said functionality... using the standard view / edit mode provided by the default shadow tiddlers that cater for it and not some extra GUI. I am very much for keeping things light weight and not for reinventing a whole range of single purpose GUIs on top of the actual document. I don't see much of a reason why administrative features should work different from the rest of TiddlyWiki — a simple tiddler called "Backstage" seems to do the trick just fine. Using a simple Backstage tiddler would also create an awareness of how TiddlyWiki works, instead of suggesting some kind of strict separation of content <> administration. This promotes the creation and development of custom administration GUIs which sure was harder to achieve and more constrained using the old backstage area. Cheers, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
