Alan, *Your proposal is missing nothing! Great I support it fully.*
But I was suggesting an additional more general solution. For example this "works" in vanilla tiddlywiki Except you can not access the result <select id=sresult> <option value="volvo">Volvo</option> <option value="saab">Saab</option> <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option> <option value="audi">Audi</option> </select> As a result we need to use the $select widget. Interestingly <datalist id="testlist"> <option value="Chrome"></option> <option value="Firefox">Default</option> <option value="Safari"></option> <option value="Opera"></option> <option value="Internet Explorer"></option> <option value="Microsoft Edge"></option> </datalist> is not even visible in tiddlywiki, unlike select/option tag. However If we could access the result you would not even have to revert to a widget. But we should still adopt your solution. Regards Tony On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 8:18:57 AM UTC+10, Alan Aldrich wrote: > > Tony, > > "...because we can't reference the result. This datalist method is a > perfect example. You can code the html and it works except you can't access > the result" > > Am I missing something? the example in the demo works. The result is > stored in a Tiddler called TestData. > > > On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 4:35:20 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >> >> Alan >> >> I support this request whole heartedly because it is a despratly needed >> missing feature. >> >> I see the value in the edit text widget but also suggest also improving >> the existing select widget or even a new widget. >> >> ------------ >> >> However I would like to add I see a number of gaps like this between what >> we can do in tiddlywiki and what is available in html5. We could let this >> evolve and address these gaps as they are raised like this one. However I >> think there would be value Actualy hunting for these differences and >> accommodating them in tiddlywiki. >> >> The fact is a lot of html5 features are denighed from us because we can't >> reference the result. This datalist method is a perfect example. You can >> code the html and it works except you can't access the result. This is to >> do with how html references the dom but not the one tiddlywiki core uses. >> >> I believe strongly that a creative guru with tiddlywiki and dom skills >> could however find a way to let tiddlywiki access the result of a html >> operation and make it available, if only to the local wiki text. This would >> open many html5 features up for use in wiki text including your current >> datalist example. Not withstanding this I think your suggestions or >> versions there of, should be implemented. >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/7652b5e6-f423-4cd6-adba-a3b7bff3cd9e%40googlegroups.com.
