Hi Jeremy, thank you for posting your experience on TiddlyWiki running on the Beaker, added to the list of TiddlyWiki platforms: http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/113574373/TiddlyWiki
I hope to write a comparison of the platforms in future. Is anything else missing from the list? Cheers, Dmitry On Thursday, 22 December 2016 01:19:48 UTC+13, Jeremy Ruston 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/2c5a8cc7-7079-448a-a551-ea4ab889aaa0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
