Hi David Good to hear from you, and very intriguing news. I'd be very interested to see both your IE extension and the TW5 mod to use FSO and .HTA files. What versions of IE are supported by the BHO?
Best wishes Jeremy. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM, David Jade <[email protected]> wrote: > New to the group - apologies if this is not the right place to throw this > idea out: > > There is another way to save files with IE that is fully supported by MS > and gives a bit of a better user experience. I've gotten a prototype of > this working with both the 2.8 TW and the newer TW5 if anyone is > interested. It is similar in function to how the Firefox plug-in works, > basically adding an API that JavaScript can then interact with to save the > file locally. > > The upside is, when using either version of TW with local files there are > no more "allow blocked content" prompts as well as no "ActiveX" security > popups. TW (2.8 and 5) can just access this new API without the user seeing > security warnings each time they open their local TW files. For the user, > less things that have to be clicked away. > > To make this work IE users do have to install a browser extension (a > Browser Helper Object). Once installed, IE users will still see a "Save As" > dialog when TW tries to save files locally but there is one important > difference - TW controls both the save file name *and* the initial save > location (so things don't automatically get put into the Download folder). > > If anyone is interested in this, let me know. I think it makes for a > better experience in IE for both versions of TW. It would need some work to > make it secure for users and not a potential risk like the old > FileSystemObject but I have some ideas about this. Of course it would > need to be code signed as well for distribution. But with a little more > effort it could be taken all the way to the point of not even showing a > Save As dialog at all, all in a officially MS supported way. > > David > > Ps. here is another quick way for IE users to make using TW locally more > tolerable right now: users can rename their local 2.8 TW files from .html > to .hta and get rid of all the security warning, etc... when running > locally. TW then runs in the HTML Application runner built into Windows > instead of in the local web browser. This could also work for TW5 but would > require a few changes (adding a IE-specific meta X-UA-Compatible header > and of course, adding a Saver module that uses the old FileSystemObject - I > also have this working if anyone is interested). > > > On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:56:48 PM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > >> Hi Andrew >> >> I've just pushed a first version of a saver module for IE10 and above. >> It's not great, sadly. Clicking save in the browser pulls up an unobtrusive >> bar at the bottom of the browser window where you can click "save". You >> then get a new copy of your wiki in the downloads folder. Anyhow, it's >> better than nothing I suppose. >> > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
