I should point out, there are precompiled binaries for OSX only at the moment. Looking at the github page, instructions for installing from source on linux are available, and only took about 5 minutes for me to get up and running.
On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 7:27:41 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > By the way, sadly, Beaker Browser is macOS only at the moment :( > > On 21 Dec 2016, at 12:19, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I’ve now created a preliminary Dat file saver that works with Beaker > Browser: > > > 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 > > 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/ > 2. Download index.html from http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/index.html (or > download and rename 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] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Beaker Browser (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 > > 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 > > 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 > > 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. > > > > > -- 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/6e0bbf02-5a30-41c1-b50d-a405986768f0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
