TW5 - Could there ever be a marriage of standalone and tid files for online usage?

[David Gifford]

Hi guys

Just curious if it would ever be possible one day to have a hybrid TW5, where you open a central standalone TW5, which had links to .tid files, which then opened within the central TW? That would be great for publishing or blogging - the initial file size would be small, but the links, while to external .tid files, would open them within the story river.

Just dreaming. Not sure if something like this is even conceivable. 

Blessings,

Dave

[Matabele]

Hi

I second the idea. The new 'image' functionality allows external images to be included into the wiki -- with this capability, any external content could be included into the wiki. 

My thoughts along these lines was a functionality to include a .tid file from a CouchDb database into the wiki rather than a .tid file from the local filesystem (of course both facilities would be nice!)

regards

[Jeremy Ruston]

> Just curious if it would ever be possible one day to have a hybrid TW5, where you open a central standalone TW5, which had links to .tid files, which then opened within the central TW? 

Yes, absolutely. The recent work on external images is intended to eventually support this use-case.

The main limitation is that when served from a file URI or a static HTTP server it isn't possible for TW to scan the filesystem to discover the .tid files; it will need to have a list of the filenames and metadata for each external tiddler.

We can work around that limitation with TiddlyFox or TiddlyDesktop. A couple of years ago I made an experimental implementation of TW5 that used the Dropbox API to scan for .tid files, which worked quite well too.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[David Gifford]

Cool! Thanks for the feedback, Jeremy!

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