TonyM said: > Such Tagging facilities should include > NewHearPlugin features allowing a quick hierarchy to be created > Toggling tags including lists with toggle check boxes. > Cycling Tags through a set -eg; Set next, unset last > Conditional toggling - eg; if tagged tag1 then - untage tag1 then add tag2 > and tag 3 > Set manipulation through tags - eg; Join all items tagged tag1 with all > items tagged tag2 and tag them with Tag3
That's quite a list, and whilst I agree tagging is central, there's a risk that adding many such features fight against what would be my demand, that TiddlyWiki is as small as possible. Putting too many features in the core makes developing TiddlyWiki5 harder to scale amongst other open source developers than a micro-kernel core with as much as sensible pushed out into optional extensions. So I'd want to have all such features available, but as plugins, and keep the core as small as possible to avoid the risk of big box with flat batteries included which characterises many platforms, such as the original jQueryUI library. What will help developers are stronger constraints on what may be safely extended, and places to converge, coordinate and agree on names and methods crossing between plugins, so that for example, my geotagging plugin works with someone else's maps plugin. I can see this is starting to happen in TW5, with more functions protecting features using closures, and exposing in a uniform way, using jQuery like function chaining. With the smallest core possible approach, there's nothing to prevent people building *up* their own bundled distributions, so indeed a super-tagging TiddlyWiki5 could be offered alongside other vertical editions, as indeed with the current TiddlyWiki except many editions currently end up having build *down* by masking superfluous core features. Finally, what might help users build their own editions is if the process of finding good quality plugins was more streamlined. I hesitate to say "core" or "standard" plugins, or even "app store" but a simple and reliable way of discovering and including high quality extensions will help keep the mico-kernel core as small as possible and yet allow TiddlyWiki5 to become as rich and feature complete as people would like. -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
