I've recently updated to ubuntu 16.04. (and, sadly Firefox 47.0). As said on the tw mailing list, Tiddlyfox is not working anymore but neither is TiddlyDesktop.
*Error with TiddlywikiDesktop :* INTERNAL Javascript Error Well, this is embarrassing. It is recommended that you restart TiddlyWiki by refreshing your browser Uncaught Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/dutech/Dropbox/TW5/pense_bete_5.1.11.html' *Error with Firefox+TiddlyFox* Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIFileOutputStream.init]" nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tiddlyfox/content/overlay.js :: TiddlyFox.saveFile :: line 98" data: no] Well well wel... Alain On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 3:39:13 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > Ciao Mario > > Your answer is smart but TOO SMART. Its disingenuous :-) > > Lets stick with TiddlyFox & Firefox. TF is for LOCAL save, not > downloading. And when TiddlyFox is not present the TW Save acts as a > download. Which is a pain in the arse because > > (a) it saves not over your local file but > > (b) creates a new one in a users "Download" directory; SO > > (c) the WORN OUT USER would have to open every newly saved instance to > carry on. > > =- (d) Its UNVIABLE. > > I think you are missing something. Normal users are not programmers. They > are nether interested in, nor competent at, smart workarounds. OR SAD > DEFEATS. > > Just saying :-) > > Best wishes > Josiah > > On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 15:03:56 UTC+2, PMario wrote: >> >> On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:42:32 PM UTC+2, Jon wrote: >>> >>> >>> As you may know, TiddlyFox will soon no longer work because API's >>>> TiddlyFox needs have been deprecated. >>>> >>> >>> Oh, I've been afraid of this! If TiddlyFox dies, then ALL of the TWs I >>> use every day become just static, read-only archives. I have NO clue what >>> other program I might migrate them to, other than I guess something like >>> Evernote that could at least hold the content - but I would sure miss all >>> my customizations and automation. >>> >> >> That's not the case. *TW will always be able to download itself* (except >> if some day browser vendors forbid downloading files -> which is unlikely. >> File download will _not_ go away any time soon!). ... We call this built in >> browser mechanism the "fallback" mechanism >> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving%20with%20the%20HTML5%20fallback%20saver>. >> ... The only problem with the fallback is, that browsers automatically name >> the new downloaded file as eg: tiddlywiki(1).html, if tiddlywiki.html >> already exists. ... If you change your browser settings to "always" ask for >> the name, you could just overwrite tiddlywiki.html manually. see: >> >> Because many users don't want this behaviour, they request us to >> overwrite tiddlywiki.html for them. ... BUT browser vendors consider this >> behaviour "risky" and they forbid it out of the box. -> One of our >> solutions is the TiddlyFox plugin. A different one is TiddlyDesktop. >> Internet Exlorer uses TiddlyIE >> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving%20on%20InternetExplorer:%5B%5BSaving%20on%20InternetExplorer%5D%5D%20%5B%5BGettingStarted%20-%20Internet%20Explorer%5D%5D>and >> >> so on ... >> >> __ Conlusion __ >> >> There is no need to install something if you want to work with a file >> TiddlyWiki. ... It's just there for our convenience. ... That's all! >> >> have fun! >> mario >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/d8a1f2b0-4fae-4479-9d8d-6b9831e26fc4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
