Mainstream TiddlyWiki

[Paul Downey]

From: Paul Downey <paul....@whatfettle.com>
Date: April 1, 2008 8:38:53 AM GMT+02:00

Away from the office for a few days and I've been thinking deeply about TiddlyWiki. It must be obvious to many how incompatible TW is culturally with enterprise and commercial software environments, something which I feel I can help address with a modest proposal, herein.

Firstly it's a grave concern to sysadmins that each user may freely download their own copy of TiddlyWiki adding their own plugins and extensions making support a nightmare. I therefore suggest we make an enterprise ready version signed with a digital fingerprint hereafter called TWE. Plugins maybe added to TWE so long as they have been approved and also digitally signed by a trusted third party. Enterprises like to devolve risk, having someone to blame when things go wrong, so obviously this must be a commercial entity, with an office, a phone number and access to a lawyer: TWE Corp.

Having the source code visible in JavaScript makes implementing a robust TWE difficult as well as presenting a serious security risk, so porting TWE to Adobe AIR ActionScript or to a more mainstream programming language such as Java applets or C# for Microsoft's Silverlight may be necessary. This has obviousvadvantages allowing TWE Corp to use Enterprise quality developers.

To cover costs TWE Corp will need to charge a nominal fee for each copy of TWE, and provide developers an SDK at a reasonable charge, with a small fee to approve and sign each plugin. Developers could have their plugin listed on a TWE gallery and charge for downloads.

To maintain trust, developers who open security holes or  squander cutomers' CPU cycles on pointless features and animations would be delisted.

It's important that TWE Corp protects its revenue so a checksum involving the licensed key, user's MAC address and browser version will be periodically phoned home. This opens up other revenue models, using usage data to suggest buying broadband, caffeine drinks, sleeping tablets, Viagra, etc.

Thoughts?
--
Mistyped on a closed source iPhone
http://blog.whatfettle.com

[Xavier Verges]

> > programming language such as Java applets or C# for Microsoft's
> > Silverlight may be necessary. This has obviousvadvantages allowing
> > TWE Corp to use Enterprise quality developers.

Have you seen the Emacs port to Silverlight? It is very promising. I
think that basing TWE on Emacs plus SOAP javascript-to-lisp and lisp-
to-c# bridges would be the proper way to deal with legacy plugins.

-Xv

[PhilHawksworth]

Classic! I'll start brushing up on my SilverLight skills.

On Apr 1, 1:05 pm, Paul Downey <paul.s.dow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Paul Downey <paul.dow...@whatfettle.com>

[Simon Baird]

ah! you got me. I was starting to write a serious response... doh. LOL.

reading between the lines I take it we won't see the iTiddly native iPhone app for sale via iTunes any time soon?

Donate to the jailbreak team. :)

--
simon...@gmail.com

[Eric Shulman]

On Apr 1, 6:43 am, "Simon Baird" <simon.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ah! you got me. I was starting to write a serious response... doh. LOL.

had me going for a bit also! (all the way up until the "Viagra"
reference!)

... and in the spirit of the day, check out the (temporary) change to
the SiteTitle on http://www.TiddlyTools.com/

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-e

[FND]

> had me going for a bit also! (all the way up until the "Viagra"
> reference!)

Yeah, that stands out...

-- F.