Announcing TiddlyWiki version 2.8.1 BETA 1

[Eric Shulman]

Greetings All!

I'm pleased to announce that TiddlyWiki Classic, version 2.8.1 BETA 1,
is now available for viewing/download, here:
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/beta

NOTE: Although TW280 was recently released, this revision addresses
several key issues in the new HTML5-based download/save handling,
including fixes for a critical "failure to load" error in older
versions of IE (8 and earlier) [1] and a change in encoding so that
FireFox no longer corrupts international characters when using
download/save handling. [2]

ALL TESTERS... please retest your documents with TW281b1 as soon as
possible and report any *new* problems immediately. Because this
build includes a fix for a critical "show stopper" problem that is
affecting real-world users, it will be promoted to full release status
within the next day or two if no problems are reported.

[1] https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/pull/135
[2] https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/issues/136

enjoy,
-e
Eric Shulman
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[TonG]

Hi Eric,

With the steps:
1) go to http://www.TiddlyWiki.com/beta
2) edit a tiddler
3) press "save changes"
I could download/save it.
Character encoding looks OK now with FF 21/Win7 64-bit.
Can you give some clarification about the naming of the saved file?
My downloaded/saved file was named "tTnydxvD.htm"; the download message shows a much longer filename (see image).

Cheers,

Ton

[PMario]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:33:44 AM UTC+2, TonG wrote:

Can you give some clarification about the naming of the saved file?
My downloaded/saved file was named "tTnydxvD.htm"; the download message shows a much longer filename (see image).

Hi Ton,
Firefox creates a uniqe id for download handling of the HTML page but it uses only 8 characters to save the file. There has been some discussion, about the naming, some time ago in the firefox dev community, but I don't have the link anymore. At the moment, there seems to be no possibility for manual file name input.

-m

[cdent]

On Jun 10, 10:07 am, Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that TiddlyWiki Classic, version 2.8.1 BETA 1,
> is now available for viewing/download, here:
>    http://www.tiddlywiki.com/beta

Thanks for the fast turnaround Eric.

This version is now available on TiddlySpace for testing as well. To
use the beta with your tiddlyspace hosted tiddlywiki either load as:

http://<yourspace>.tiddlyspace.com/?twrelease=beta

or create or edit a ServerSettings tiddler to include a line with:

twrelease: beta

[cdent]

On Jun 11, 1:39 pm, cdent <chris.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 10:07 am, Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm pleased to announce that TiddlyWiki Classic, version 2.8.1 BETA 1,
> > is now available for viewing/download, here:
> >    http://www.tiddlywiki.com/beta
>
> Thanks for the fast turnaround Eric.

Eric, the party on TiddlySpace that first noticed the problem is
reporting that when using the new beta things are okay.

[TonG]

Hi Mario,

Thanks for clarification.

Cheers,

Ton

[Eric Shulman]

> Firefox creates a uniqe id for download handling of the HTML page but it
> uses only 8 characters to save the file. There has been some discussion,
> about the naming, some time ago in the firefox dev community, but I don't
> have the link anymore. At the moment, there seems to be no possibility for
> manual file name input.

If you set FireFox to "always ask me where to save files" (see
Tools>Options>General dialog), then it will give you the opportunity
to change the filename (as well as selecting the download location).

-e

[PMario]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:29:40 PM UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote:

If you set FireFox to "always ask me where to save files" (see
Tools>Options>General dialog), then it will give you the opportunity
to change the filename (as well as selecting the download location).

Cool. thx
-m

[cdent]

On Jun 10, 10:07 am, Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ALL TESTERS... please retest your documents with TW281b1 as soon as
> possible and report any *new* problems immediately.  Because this
> build includes a fix for a critical "show stopper" problem that is
> affecting real-world users, it will be promoted to full release status
> within the next day or two if no problems are reported.

Eric,

Any expected release date for 2.8.1?

Thanks.

[cdent]

Bump.

[cdent]

Double bump.

Please see: http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlyspace/browse_frm/thread/88fea8494d9e1b9a

[Eric Shulman]

On Jun 20, 1:58 am, cdent <chris.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Double bump.

> Please see:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlyspace/browse_frm/thread/88fea849...

Profound apologies for the delay. I've been dealing with some serious
health issues that sidetracked me for a while, but I'm feeling
somewhat better and have more energy now, so I'm back to work on
updates to TiddlyWiki Classic...

I've just made another update to the BETA for TiddlyWiki Classic 2.8.1
(now BETA 2) in order to correct a problem in TW280 with the
calculation of 'useJavaSaver' and 'readOnly' flags. When viewing the
beta *on-line*, you should no longer see a warning about loading Java,
and the document should default to read-only (i.e., you should see
"view" instead of "edit" in the tiddler toolbar commands).

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Because the previously posted beta changes are on the 'critical path'
for some users and the newest beta fix is relatively simple (though
still important), I intend to promote this build to full release THIS
WEEKEND. If you have any concerns, please test this BETA 2 version
ASAP and report any problems to me immediately.

-e

[chris...@gmail.com]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Eric Shulman wrote:

> On Jun 20, 1:58�am, cdent <chris.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Double bump.
>> Please see:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlyspace/browse_frm/thread/88fea849...
>
> Profound apologies for the delay. I've been dealing with some serious
> health issues that sidetracked me for a while, but I'm feeling
> somewhat better and have more energy now, so I'm back to work on
> updates to TiddlyWiki Classic...

I hope you're feeling better. Sorry for the pressure...

I'm in the process now of pushing the new beta out to tiddlyspace.com,

http://cdent-t15.tiddlyspace.com/#version

> IMPORTANT NOTE:
> Because the previously posted beta changes are on the 'critical path'
> for some users and the newest beta fix is relatively simple (though
> still important), I intend to promote this build to full release THIS
> WEEKEND. If you have any concerns, please test this BETA 2 version
> ASAP and report any problems to me immediately.

Excellent, I'll release a new tiddlywebwiki as soon as that happens.

Thanks very much.

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