Must go to bed but this is just so cool. I just realized an iframe is only necessary if you want to preview the tiddler/s. You're just searching a local tiddler with a list, in your own TW! And I even think you don't even need to involve proxy stuff or strict assuming the already existing import feature can be made to identify urls from each item in the list. The structure could maybe be very loose.
But if nicely laid out, and the, say, plugin author follows some standard, including providing multiple urls to things like tumbnail and description, *the list tiddler could be designed to apper just like any other <https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/search/?q=video&cat=1%2C0&appver=26.0&platform=windows> plugin site! And we have the import feature already so a Install button next to each. And it's all in your own tw!!!* *...AND the idea can be used for almost anything!* Themed such lists; "the plugin list" "the beginners toolkit list" themes, mathstuff, sex, drugs and rock'nroll - whatever naturally arises. If Jeremy doesn't like rock'nroll on the official site, there could be *one* single agreed upon place place hosting all "unofficial lists". The only type of stuff I see need for some thinking is for more collaborative stuff, like core documentation to get a consistent style, avoid redundence etc. On tw.com, instead of loads of actual plugins or loads of links to arbitrary tiddlywikis in the wild, there are a few tiddlers with mere lists! Sure, there may pop up lists in the wild but that's no problem at all because contrary to the current problem with plugins and websites in unknown places, an item on a list can be on multiple lists! Surprisingly simple. As far as I can tell, the only real difficulty is how people should add to the list and not mess it up. Kind of the same problem as discussed for documentation in the other threads. But then, for some lists maybe there will be list moderators who take care of lists with subjects they care for. The rate stuff is added is probably not very high for an average list so maybe the moderator could even accept list contributions via email (as I think pmario suggested for documentation). An ambitious moderator could even make the list tiddler snazzy with other stuff for his little special interest group. And it's in the interest of the special interest group to keep their favourite list updated. Hm, why didn't we come up with this a long time ago. Just a few silly list that someone moderates and gives to Jeremy so it can be downloaded from tw.com. Am I missing something? <:-) On Monday, November 24, 2014 12:10:33 AM UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote: > > Hi Mat, > > While doing baby-steps in terms of actual traveling and > destination-like-specs... your idea definitely has it's appeal... stuffing > metadata > into the core (or even fetching them from someplace) and use some > remote-rendering voodoo to fetch the applicable contents either via > intermediary iframes or directly, in the sense of what Jeremy suggested, as > a proxy-server-kind-of thing to request and access actual contents. > > The critical part being the actual MetaData authoring process... which > could be yet anohter GitHub repo with a meaningful folder structure and a > chron-job that mangles all the meta-bits every now and then into a > *tiddlymeta.json* type of thing to be loaded / updated by the click of a > button. > > Best wishes, Tobias. > -- 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.
