Hi Jeremy, It's interesting that you choose to restrict javascript usage to make it more safe to share content. Thanks for the explanation.
Best, Matt On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 3:25:01 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Matt > > Just to add to the answers from others, > > I'm also somewhat confused about why we have javascript macros then, and > what the difference is there. > > > The objective of TiddlyWiki’s security restrictions is to make it possible > to safely share content between users. That requires that JavaScript code > be clearly identified so that the recipient can decide whether to trust it > enough to execute it or not; if we allowed inline JavaScript within > fragments of wikitext then a recipient couldn’t know whether they could > safely render incoming wikitext. > > So, JavaScript macros are permitted because they are readily identified as > such, and can be blocked when required. > > The other factor in TiddlyWiki’s design that affects the use of third > party JavaScript libraries is that TiddlyWiki doesn’t support the > traditional web development paradigm of keeping state data in the DOM (this > is the paradigm popularised a decade ago by jQuery). Instead, TiddlyWiki > uses a virtual DOM and differential updates (this is the paradigm used by > recent frameworks like React). The net effect is that TiddlyWiki generally > doesn’t support just dropping in a <script> tag like traditional web pages. > Having said that, the TiddlyWiki plugin library contains numerous examples > of properly integrating third party libraries. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- 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/4f6ee0e7-f68b-45ff-8c00-3336c2ca0ccd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
