TiddlyWiki 2.5.0 released [core]

[Ken Girard]

We've just uploaded release 2.5.0 of TiddlyWiki to
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/. It's an unusual release because it
contains only a single new feature over and above what we delivered in
the previous release 2.4.3, but the new feature is a very significant
change: we've added the standard jQuery library to TiddlyWiki.

The immediate consequence is that plugin authors can start to use the
powerful facilities of jQuery to simplify and speed-up plugin
development. Over the next few releases we'll be refactoring the
TiddlyWiki core code to take advantage of jQuery too, which should see
a reduction in the size of TiddlyWiki, and improvements in performance
and flexibility.

There's more details about this move over on the TiddlyWikiDev list:

http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev/browse_thread/thread/c0711e68f7caa680

And there's also a roadmap here:

http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Dev:Roadmap

I should emphasise again that the addition of jQuery is the only
change between 2.4.3 and 2.5.0, and that the size of TiddlyWiki's
empty.html has consequently increased from 286k to 342k. That extra
space will be recovered as we refactor the core TiddlyWiki code (there
are substantial swathes of TiddlyWiki core code that can be rewritten
much more succinctly with jQuery).

Cheers

Jeremy

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Jeremy Ruston
mailto:jer...@osmosoft.com
http://www.tiddlywiki.com

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