Your choices show the magnitude of the problem. hta files only work with IE. TWexe is quite possibly dangerous and wouldn't be allowed on secured systems. Bob requires users to understand launching program "A" before using "B" and how to install plugins.
The obvious first choice is the default download mechanism. Just tell users how to adjust their browser settings to always ask about saving, and then they can be off and running. This is the only method that works out-of-the box everywhere without any additional plugins, software, executables, or specialized browsers. THEN, after the user is hooked, and wants a simpler, more powerful way to save, they can come back and explore other options. Once again, saving is a difficult problem with difficult choices. Changing a name, not so much. On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 2:02:38 PM UTC-8, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > The usability and complexity associated with saving tiddlywiki's arises > again in this thread because naming tiddlywiki is about the popularisation. > This is where I think a carefully selected "additional" name would provide > a metaphor that helps people grasp what tiddlywiki is. I do not have any > examples yet, but a focused effort could uncover some good alternate names. > > However on the saving issues perhaps we can change the way we present all > the different saver approaches. When I think of the platform I am most > familiar with "Windows" there are some very quick adoption options, the > big green button could save empty.html as empty.hta and the recently > rediscovered TWexe are run out of the box at least on windows. Expanding > this further to server implementations includes bob.exe. > > At least on windows and possibly Android we can help rapid deployment. > Perhaps the only barrier is we need to provide a simple decision tree from > tiddlywiki.com > > Regards > Tony > > On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 5:28:06 AM UTC+11, bimlas wrote: >> >> A wave started which could make TiddlyWiki more and more famous. *Now* >> we might need to make it really user-friendly, so that new people can >> easily get over the initial difficulties and stay with Tiddly. >> >> >> https://hackaday.com/2020/02/14/it-aint-over-til-the-paperwork-is-done-test-driving-tiddlywiki/ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fb7a49e8-43a8-4564-a8a6-6f202540b8d3%40googlegroups.com.
