A way to make Canonical URI more flexible?

[Mark S.]

Is there a way to easily change the base path of  _canonical_uri ?

I tried something easy like this, but of course it didn't work:

{{$:/MAS/DefaultImagePath}}/2016/maps/map-satel-nwlr2-folo-stalewater.png

But maybe there's some other way to do this with macros or templates?

Thanks!
Mark

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mark

Is there a way to easily change the base path of  _canonical_uri ?

There’s no such capability at the moment, but it’s an interesting suggestion.

As a quick fix, you may be able to use the HTML <base> element:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base

Best wishes

Jeremy.

I tried something easy like this, but of course it didn't work:

{{$:/MAS/DefaultImagePath}}/2016/maps/map-satel-nwlr2-folo-stalewater.png

But maybe there's some other way to do this with macros or templates?

Thanks!
Mark

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[Mark S.]

Hello Jeremy,

I hacked a test TW, and found that I could change the base with <base>.

So the question is, is there any tiddler where I could put the HTML <base> code and have it invoked when the TW is loaded? Manually hacking the source code is a bit inconvenient.

Changing <base> also changes the base of any relative external links. So you would have to choose between getting _canonical_uri right or getting your links right.

Ideally you would have multiple bases, and images using _canonical_uri would switch bases depending on tags or other criteria.

The point of all this is to make it possible to use TW on different platforms where resources (images, pdfs, etc.)  may have to reside in completely different locations.

Thanks!
Mark

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mark

So the question is, is there any tiddler where I could put the HTML <base> code and have it invoked when the TW is loaded? Manually hacking the source code is a bit inconvenient.

Try creating a tiddler tagged $:/tags/RawMarkup containing the <base> tag.

Changing <base> also changes the base of any relative external links. So you would have to choose between getting _canonical_uri right or getting your links right.

Yes indeed, it’s a bit of a blunt solution, but hopefully will allow you to some exploring.

Ideally you would have multiple bases, and images using _canonical_uri would switch bases depending on tags or other criteria.

Yes, one could imagine introducing a new _canonical_uri_base field that contains the name of a tiddler containing the base URI for interpreting the _canonical_uri field.

The point of all this is to make it possible to use TW on different platforms where resources (images, pdfs, etc.)  may have to reside in completely different locations.

I agree it’s an important use case.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Mark S.]

Hi Jeremy,

That seems to work -- and it turns out to be pretty important -- TW wrote over (fixed?) my hand edited code when I saved!

Thanks again,
Mark

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 9:19:12 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

Hi Mark

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Mark

That seems to work -- and it turns out to be pretty important -- TW wrote over (fixed?) my hand edited code when I saved!

Yes; don’t forget that TiddlyWiki is a Quine. When you save changes, it is actually regenerating its own source code, and saving that over the top of itself.

Best wishes

Jeremy

Thanks again,
Mark

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 9:19:12 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:

Hi Mark

So the question is, is there any tiddler where I could put the HTML <base> code and have it invoked when the TW is loaded? Manually hacking the source code is a bit inconvenient.

Try creating a tiddler tagged $:/tags/RawMarkup containing the <base> tag.

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