TiddlyGlobals: extension to disable animations globally

[Saq Imtiaz]

Hey guys,

I finally got fed up of having to turn off animations on every TW I visit and whipped up a proof of concept extension that disables it. It's a quick 5 minutes job for now, so dont expect too much. It hasnt been tested much yet either, so let me know how it works for you!

Also, please note that it bypasses the XPCNativeWrapper in order to modify the restart function, so it is a potential security risk. Personally I dont think this poses much of a threat at all, but use at your own risk!

http://tw.lewcid.org/tiddlyGlobals.xpi

This will disable animations and disable httpReadOnly globally. If there is any interest, ill add a configuration dialog so you can decide for yourself what settings you want to modify. Perhaps the ability to add variables you want declared as name variable pairs....

Oh, does anyone have any ideas on what the best way to detect from JS whether the current loaded page is a TW? Right now I'm just checking to see if there is a restart function but that is not a reliable check.
Cheers,
Saq


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[Martin Budden]

Great stuff. I'm definitely interested.

Martin

[Clint Checketts]

On 1/18/07, Saq Imtiaz <lew...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, does anyone have any ideas on what the best way to detect from JS whether the current loaded page is a TW? Right now I'm just checking to see if there is a restart function but that is not a reliable check.

It probably wouldn't hurt to come right out and say that that the TiddlyWIki was a tiddlywiki file. A good place would be in the version variable.

var version = {program: "TiddlyWiki", major: 2, minor: 1, revision: 3, date: new Date("Nov 3, 2006"), extensions: {}};

Then you could check it with if( version.program=="TiddlyWiki") etc...

Anyone else think that would be a good addition to the core? Maybe version.name would be a better variable name...

-Clint

[Saq Imtiaz]

I think you've just hit the nail square on the head there Clint. Can see some potential uses there but no harm!
Cheers,
Saq

-Clint

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TiddlySnip (http://tiddlysnip.com): a firefox extension that turns TiddlyWiki into a scrapbook!

[Ken Girard]

Also once Google and the other search engines start really trying to
read TWs it gives them a way to know right off the bat that what the
search bot is looking at.

Ken Girard

[Saq Imtiaz]

What do you say Jeremy?

[Martin Budden]

Saq,

sounds good. Why don't you raise a ticket?

Martin