WHitWoT #5 (Jan 30-Feb 5, 2008)
Daniel Baird
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/2008/02/whitwot-5-jan-30-feb-5-2008.html
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WHitWoT #5 (Jan 30-Feb 5, 2008)
Welcome to the fifth edition of "What Happened in the World of
TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.
WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing
list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
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!News and Stuff
!!!!French translation of TiddlyWiki 2.3.0
Our only news of note this week comes from the mysterious ocalTW, who
has translated TiddlyWiki into French. The translation is available
from www.tiddlywiki.fr, and by the look of that site ocalTW is
expecting to maintain his translations for a while to come. I've
linked to what I think is the announcement on the French language
TiddlyWiki Google Group :)
[source] http://www.tiddlywiki.fr/
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiFR/browse_thread/thread/41a24d3a987bca28
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!Online Discussions
!!!!How good is TiddlyWiki for "regular" websites?
Alex Hough asked if he should use TiddlyWiki for a rewrite of his
friend's site. Discussion covered all sorts of stuff about
TiddlyWiki's strengths and weaknesses, including nice layout, site
statistics and the like. Check this thread out if you are wondering
if you should use TW for your own public site.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/6fecf9a673f5f140
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!!!!Please critique Giffmex GTD
Dave Gifford, the man behind giffmex.org and its collection of
TiddlyWiki resources[1] including "TiddlyWiki for the rest of us", has
produced a TW GTD tool[2] he'd like some feedback on. If you're a GTD
user you might like a look, and I know Dave would appreciate any
comments you had.
PS: Dave already retroactively named his child after me[3], but if you
provide him with good insights he might find some other kids to
retro-name.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bc9d625188aa5061
[1] http://giffmex.org/tiddlywikicentral.html
[2] http://www.giffmex.org/giffmexgtd.html
[3] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1e051928cd72e24b
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!!!!Deleting tiddlers from a ForEachTiddler list
tigger6333 made a list of tiddlers using ForEachTiddler[1], and wanted
to have a "delete" button for each tiddler listed. Suggestions
included TiddlerTweakerPlugin[2] instead, or using a little macro FND
knocked up for the occasion[3], but tigger ended up working up a
solution using DeleteAllTaggedPlugin[4].
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/5afa85b0a8958b78
[1] http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin
[2] http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TiddlerTweakerPlugin
[3] http://fnd.lewcid.org/svn/TiddlyWiki/plugins/DeleteTiddlersMacro.js
[4] http://ido-xp.tiddlyspot.com/#DeleteAllTaggedPlugin
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!!!!Geocaching with TiddlyWiki
Trey A wanted a neat solution for capturing geocache info into his
D-cubed TiddlyWiki. After much discussion Trey figured something out
and wrote it up[5].
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/527e7080998bf3c8
[5] http://trey.arthur.tiddlyspot.com/#WebTripReport_FromFormsToGeocachingTiddlers
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!!!!Multiple forms in one tiddler
actioncomics asked for a way to have multiple forms in one tiddler.
Xavier's solution[6] used Udo's FormTiddlerPlugin[7] and added support
for multiple forms. Hopefully Udo will get a chance to look over
Xavier's changes soon.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/4f9e3ed1783e187f
[6] http://xdexavier.googlepages.com/FormSample.html
[7] http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#FormTiddlerPlugin
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!!!!A to Z tabs
Mark stores authors in a custom tiddler field, and wanted to sort
tiddlers into A to Z tabs based on author's names. FND's suggested
solution worked, but the following discussion covered all sorts of
tweaks and modifications of the a-z tab theme. Worth a read if you
want to do tabs for anything.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/6f576fa047a9c1ef
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!!!!Namespaces for tiddlers
Bob Paige considered the idea of namespaces for tiddlers. This idea
comes up every now and then, and it's always interesting to see it
through new eyes. Bob sounds like he's made good progress on a
namespace support plugin, but no links as yet. Bob, if you're
reading, let us know how it's going.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/381ac7bac75098a5
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!!!!Make Haloscan comments show up properly
Oscar pointed out that when a user visits his TiddlyWiki blog via a
"permalink" (eg http://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted ), the
haloscan[8] comment button doesn't show up like it should. Oscar's
idea for a fix worked with some help from Eric Shulman.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/4561c30ec2993bb2
[8] http://haloscan.com/
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!!!!Showing TW Presentations on a Secondary Screen
Bob Paige asked about showing presentations from TiddlyWiki. He
wanted to go full screen, and to show the presentation on a secondary
screen. FND pointed out that fullscreen is possible from the browser
point of view (often the F11 key does the job), but difficult to write
CSS for. Xavier suggested Paulo Soares' slide show plugin[9], which
almost answered Bob's question.
However the secondary screen part has largely gone unanswered. Bob
thinks having a way to display the same tiddler in two different
windows with different CSS applied would be very useful, and I think
that's quite possible -- this seems like a way to make TiddlyWiki into
a great presentation tool.
Maybe Bob should tune up his JavaScript skills and see what he can
throw together :)
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/14ebb85d2a4494f7
[9] http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~psoares/addons.html#SlideShowExample
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!Quick Shots
Use AccordionMenu in your main menu:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/11593b10b8f06b0e
TiddlyWiki doesn't save back to SharePoint:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/99b5efd6c1a3a7a3
Norton Security is still secretly infecting TiddlyWikis:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/36da57994cfddbab
Set font sizes for FormTiddler/DataTiddler fields:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e74e6ed6110ec490
Switch on SinglePageMode for everyone:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e9a92ef9377c7c81
TiddlyWiki mostly works on a Blackberry in Opera Mini 4:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/40ddfc4c16797896
Get RSSReader working online and offline:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/6b727ba83b58dd23
Switch DisableWikiLinks on permanently:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/989a363f7ea35fb1
Add EasyEdit to MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c7d183b1ae34de60
Move the side bar to the left:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/dfd5444ca6403815
Renaming a tiddler and its references:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/091ef297e2846bb3
Disabling a particular wiki format (eg strikethrough):
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/bf3fc357ec416a6b
Turn your TiddlyWiki into static html:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/4374f757ad02aae5
Make TiddlyWiki magically turn phrases into tiddler links:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/f91e45b7c2a6e021
Do outlines in TiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/5eac557af3d697ca
Properly escape arguments to the Alias macro:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c34cdc178e58ee6e
Move focus to search box on opening a TiddlyWiki:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/eb9daac8431560c5
Less tall headers:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c2d9b248fb5690b8
Customise the slider control button:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/713bd86881dc9dbc
Replace the text "tagging:" with the tiddler name:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ca29f4541cebca6c
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!!!Postdrivel
This week the news sought me out -- a pleasant turnaround that I'd
like to encourage. So please feel free to email me anything you think
the TiddlyWiki community might be interested in. I'm also drafting
some editing guidelines for preparing WHitWoT, so all those folk who
want to help out can chip in.
Finally, if you're inspired to contribute an article or something,
please let me know. General praise of how awesome TiddlyWiki is
completely acceptable :)
;Daniel
!!!About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google
Group by Daniel Baird. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs
tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and
wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.
Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
FND
> please feel free to email me anything you think
> the TiddlyWiki community might be interested in.
Maybe we could add a category "Unresolved" to ensure that no help
request goes unanswered.
For example, the "presentations from a tiddlywiki" thread you've listed
might be a candidate.
Not sure whether [twdev] issues (e.g. my recent issue with extending the
backstage*) should also be listed here.
-- F.
* http://tinyurl.com/2sq9mk
(http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev/browse_thread/thread/525a5139d808faa7/)
Bob Paige
Thanks for another excellent summary!
Since you mentioned my namespaces efforts, I have published them in
rough form on tiddlyspot: http://namespacesplugin.tiddlyspot.com/
Feedback welcome.
--
Bobman