Sorry if I was unclear but I do not support the idea of importing files directly into an html file such as TiddlyWiki since this will cause slow down and a loss of file mobility. My request for a link import was based on linking to relative files and folders.
One point to note is that you'll get different behaviour if you drag the > link into the text editor within a tiddler you are editing ... We could > indeed tweak it to be a relative link if possible. I think this would vastly improve the process of including files in TW. By the way, when I drag a file into the text region of a Tiddler during editing I get redirected by my browser to the file (using most recent Chrome on Win 8) so I do not get the absolute link you mentioned. -Blake On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Blake > > One point to note is that you'll get different behaviour if you drag the > link into the text editor within a tiddler you are editing. By default, > you'll get the absolute link. We could indeed tweak it to be a relative > link if possible. > > The behaviour I was thinking about in my answers above is when you drag > the link into the rest of the TiddlyWiki window, which triggers the import > mechanism. It's still unclear to me what we should do when we try to import > a link. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Blake Blacksmith < > blakeblacksm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We could indeed introduce special behaviour for dragging links; the >>> browser identifies the text as a link when it is dropped. *The problem >>> is that it's not clear what that behaviour should be; for image links*, >>> ... >>> >>> >> I do not think the job of a drag-and-drop file-link *inserter *should >> include determining what type of data the file-link leads to. That should >> be up to the user to decide with [img[...]] or other user-defined file >> handling macros. >> >> The most general & simple solution would be that the drag-and-dropped >> function should: >> >> 1. grab the absolute-file-link string file >> >> - such as: *file:///d:/data/Proj/* >> *PhotoScrapbook/origs/%7B040%7DIM-3837.jpg* >> >> >> 2. check that the file is within the TiddlyWiki's folder >> >> - for example: *d:/data/Proj/**PhotoScrapbook/ * >> >> >> 3. paste the appropriate link into a text box >> >> - if it is in under same folder as the TiddlyWiki then paste the *relative >> *file link text : *file:.//**origs/%7B040%*7DIM-3837.jpg >> - and if the file is not under that folder assume the user wants the >> file to be imported into the TiddlyWiki are raw text. >> >> >> - could also have the option to paste the *absolute *path link text : >> f*ile:///d:/data/Proj/*PhotoScrapbook/origs/%7B040%*7DIM-3837.jpg >> *(although >> I am not sure under what scenario this would be useful). >> >> How does that sound? Is that doable or does that violate some browser >> security limitations? >> >> Blake >> >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/k-cMEGkOV-8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
