That and no easy way to share macros... besides...WikiBooks, GitHub gists, GitHub wikis, Reddit wikis etc, Shared Dropbox pages, federation etc. And pretty much everything else we haven't used yet.
What if Jeremy would enable the wiki feature on the TiddlyWiki Five GitHub repo and let anyone edit it? On Feb 17, 2017 11:51, "PMario" <pmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 3:23:17 PM UTC+1, Lost Admin wrote: >> >> On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 5:53:13 PM UTC-5, PMario wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 11:41:36 PM UTC+1, Mat wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The TiddlerWidget <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlerWidget> is used to >>>>> set a value for the current tiddler >>>>> <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Current%20Tiddler> variable, valid within the >>>>> scope of the TiddlerWidget. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Better? >>>> >>> >>> For me. .. Yes. >>> -m >>> >> >> Speaking as an end-user who recently (about a year ago) started using >> TiddlyWiki, I would like to say that Neither the original sentence nor >> Mat's first attempt made any sense to me. It was only after reading >> PMario's explanation that I think I now understand what the TiddlerWidget >> is used for. I doubt I would have understood Mat's second statement without >> having read PMario's explanation first. >> >> To give you a little background of where I am coming from as a user, I >> used to be a software developer in the 90's but now I only get to dig into >> software as a hobby. I use TiddlyWiki as I imagine it was intended, a >> convenient way to take notes and organize my ideas. >> > > :) > > Yea. .. The main problem is, that widgets are the primary building > elements for TiddlyWiki. But they weren't intended to be so visible to "end > users" as they actually are. But they where there first. Including some > basic docs, for every single one of them. > > ----------- "off topic" ------------- > > The initial goal was, to have macros for users. eg: <<list-links>>. > > where: <<list-links filter:"[tag[HelloThere]]">> ... creates an unordered > list > and: <<list-links filter:"[tag[HelloThere]]" type:ol>> .. creates an > ordered list. > > This user macro was created + documentation > <http://tiddlywiki.com/#list-links%20Macro>. Where creating usable docs, > most of the time is much more work, that creating the macro! > > *The immediate user response was*. ... That's nice, but I want to create > a *table *and no list. ... How do I do that? > > We should have created a new macro eg: <<list-table>> ... + docs ... > Where creating a simple macro may need 15min plus docs 60+min. ... So what > does every developer do? > > Post something, that is built in 5 minutes and no docs needed. Since the > list-widget <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ListWidget> already has a doc and the > user is happy, with the stuff that works for his/her usecase. > It mixes pure HTML and widgets ... It's much more complicated than macros, > but much more powerful and flexible. > > <table> > <thead> > <tr class="evenRow"><td align="left">title</td><td > align="left">info</td></tr> > </thead> > <tbody> > <$list filter="[tag[HelloThere]]"> > <tr class="oddRow"><td align="left">{{!!title}}</td><td > align="left">{{!!description}}</td></tr> > </$list> > </tbody> > </table> > > The main advantage of the above code is, that someone else maintains the > html-table docs. Mozilla in this case > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/table>. > Styling with CSS is also documented by someone else > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference> and highly > standardized. > > So the user is happy and the developer is happy. .... > > As I wrote, it would be trivial to put the above code into a macro, _but_ > .. creating the docs takes time, which is OK, if there wouldn't be > something called: "maintenance". ... Maintaining and expanding the docs, is > close to impossible for only one person! > > IMO that's the main reason, why there are only a view "sofisticated" > macros (eg TOC) and a lot of "html - widget" combinations out there. > > just some thoughts. > > have fun! > mario > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tiddlywiki/284f8d41-e10f-40fa-bd1a-df8d870a66cc%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/284f8d41-e10f-40fa-bd1a-df8d870a66cc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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