Autosave in Safari

[Ollie]

Hello,

I really want to like this program but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make autosave work in Safari 10.0.1 (latest stable as of today). It just tells me that I must save manually which is a deal-breaker for me. Is there any way I can make autosave work?

Many thanks,

Ollie

[PMario]

Hi Ollie,

On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 12:49:39 PM UTC+1, Ollie wrote:

I really want to like this program but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make autosave work in Safari 10.0.1 (latest stable as of today). It just tells me that I must save manually which is a deal-breaker for me. Is there any way I can make autosave work?

Not out of the box. Browser vendors consider the behaviour you see, to be a security feature. They prevent web apps from saving themself back to disk, because that's a security risk. So to solve the problem you'd need to convince the WebKit team, to change that behaviour.

There is a FireFox addOn: TiddlyFox that works around that problem. ATM imo that's the only way to have autosave with a browser on the Mac. TiddlyDesktop be a second option. Its a "stand alone" GUI to manage TiddlyWikis. You may give it a try.

have fun!
mario

[Xavier Cazin]

Hi Ollie, Mario,

May I add that the NodeJS variant of TiddlyWiki addresses those situations quite well: when you can't do everything you want within the browser (because you want to autosave from Safari or your data is too big, or you want to share part of it, or you need access from across the Internet, etc.), serving your TW data from a server instead of a file sounds like a good option.

By the way, maintaining server-based TiddlyWikis doesn't necessarily mean that they must live on an external host: I'm running quite a few (too much) NodeJS TiddlyWiki on my local laptop, and some on my oldish Android phone.

Cheers,

X.

-- Xavier Cazin

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[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Ollie

On 31 Oct 2016, at 11:49, Ollie <o.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I really want to like this program but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make autosave work in Safari 10.0.1 (latest stable as of today). It just tells me that I must save manually which is a deal-breaker for me. Is there any way I can make autosave work?

The problem is that Safari has never supported the “download” attribute on the A element:

https://davidwalsh.name/download-attribute

The good news is that this is finally changing: the latest Safari Technology Preview does support it, and saving TiddlyWikis thus works in the same way as Chrome.

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/

Best wishes

Jermey.