By the way, sadly, Beaker Browser is macOS only at the moment :(

> On 21 Dec 2016, at 12:19, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’ve now created a preliminary Dat file saver that works with Beaker Browser:
> 
> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/a20da9f5303fdd52a54d61b231450c2aa35d3804
>  
> <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/a20da9f5303fdd52a54d61b231450c2aa35d3804>
> 
> A testament to the API, this is by far the shortest of the savers currently 
> supported by the core.
> 
> The saver is available in the latest prerelease build at 
> http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease>
> 
> So, here are full instructions for getting things up and running with the new 
> saver:
> 
> 1. Download and install the Beaker Browser from https://beakerbrowser.com/ 
> <https://beakerbrowser.com/>
> 2. Download index.html from http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/index.html 
> <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/index.html> (or download and rename 
> http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html 
> <http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html>)
> 3. Run Beaker, and if necessary open a tab to beaker:start
> 4. Click the cloud icon in the left column
> 5. Click the green “New” button
> 6. Enter the details of your site
> 7. Click the link “select them manually” and upload the index.html file you 
> downloaded in (2)
> 8. View the site by clicking on the link to index.html; it should open in a 
> new tab
> 9. Try out creating tiddlers, and saving changes
> 
> Let me know how you get on,
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Jeremy
> 
>> On 21 Dec 2016, at 11:26, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com <https://beakerbrowser.com/>) is a 
>> very interesting new browser forked from Chromium that adds the ability to 
>> serve sites to other browsers over a peer-to-peer network. It seems like a 
>> perfect fit for TiddlyWiki.
>> 
>> The browser can host a number of sites, each of which is a bundle of files 
>> and folders. They are served on a protocall called “Dat”, where the URLs 
>> look like this:
>> 
>> dat://eaec2913b78d11a81a68775068fb3107e9029b746e7cbc6d1a1926190c9f6f05/index.html
>>  
>> <dat://eaec2913b78d11a81a68775068fb3107e9029b746e7cbc6d1a1926190c9f6f05/index.html>
>> 
>> My Beaker Browser will serve that URL to other browsers; other Beaker 
>> Browsers can view the site, and fork it.
>> 
>> I’ve made a brief video that demonstrates how to get up and running in the 
>> most basic way:
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/SFf3BkxmrCQ <https://youtu.be/SFf3BkxmrCQ>
>> 
>> The video doesn’t show an extremely neat feature called “Live Reload” where 
>> clients get automatically reloaded when the site changes.
>> 
>> The next step is to use the Dat API to create a saver module for TW5 so that 
>> one can edit and save directly. The resulting user experience will be just 
>> like TiddlyFox; saving will just work.
>> 
>> If it’s not clear that I’m quite excited, I think this is the distributed 
>> TiddlySpot that we’ve been waiting for. The nice simple API would make it a 
>> great platform for TWederation, for example:
>> 
>> https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis/dat.html 
>> <https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis/dat.html>
>> 
>> If you’re interested to try it out, install the software and try the dat: 
>> URL I gave above. Create your own site and post the URL here.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Jeremy.
>> 
>> 
> 

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