WHitWoT #4 (Jan 23-29, 2008)

Welcome to the fourth edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.

WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.

News and Stuff

Addition to QuickEditToolbar

Eric Shulman has added a tag filter to the "link" button of the QuickEditToolbar. This lets you filter by tag first, saving you from having to scroll through a giant list of all tiddlers.

[source] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#QuickEditPackage
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/d540438f7721f1a4

SelectStylesheetPlugin becomes SelectThemesPlugin

The new SelectThemesPlugin uses functionality added to TiddlyWiki in version 2.3. And at 6K it's 11K lighter than the old one.

I wonder if tiddlythemes.com will adopt this as its standard theme system?

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/acf252a008267da6
[source] http://www.tiddlytools.com/#SwitchThemePlugin

TableSortingPlugin now works in tabs

cmari discovered that TableSortingPlugin didn't work when tiddlers were displayed in tabs. Saq posted a new copy to pastebin that fixes the problem.

I think the update has made it to Saq's site, but in case it hasn't I'll post both source URLs.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/993f08b717214feb
[source] http://pastebin.ca/875619
[source] http://tw.lewcid.org/#TableSortingPlugin

[thread]

Online Discussions

Editing tags en masse

Nicolas Syssoieff asked about easy ways to edit tags across a bunch of tiddlers at once. Several solutions were proposed. MultiTagPlugin[1] might have been a solution but it wouldn't work for Nicolas for unknown reasons.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/aa1509a568b140f5
[1] http://ido-xp.tiddlyspot.com/#MultiTagEditorPlugin

Embedded images in Internet Explorer

Roger Ramjet pointed out a nice implementation[2] of the "bunch of tiny block elements" technique for embedding images. This kind of thing is necessary because IE still doesn't (even in IE7) support the "data:" URI scheme that every other browser handles. We are yet to see a robust implementation of this technique for TiddlyWiki, but I suspect that is because most TW developers have moved on to better browsers.

This story made it into WHitWoT so I can say this: if you are using Internet Explorer, please consider updating to a better web browser. Your web browsing will be safer and easier, and you can enjoy some better features in TiddlyWiki.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b085f143328408d6
[2] http://www.bennherrera.com/EmbeddedImage/

What on earth is "RippleRap"?

Phil Whitehouse, who knows the secret Osmosoft[3] handshake, asked the community for some guidance about RippleRap's next steps.

RippleRap is a TiddlyWiki assembly that Osmosoft demoed at "LeWeb3" late last year. It does some cool stuff including a fairly robust way to share conference notes.

Phil asked people who were interested to comment via his blog[4].

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ae758d74c0e0b8d6
[3] http://osmosoft.com
[4] http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2008/01/ripplerap-next-phase.html

Tinkering with CSS rules

jk/stephen asked originally about including snippets of CSS from various tiddlers, answered by Eric. The conversation then became a quite informative Q&A about using CSS in TiddlyWiki. Check it out if you want to learn how to style stuff.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/f644b880e6353182

Saving TiddlyWiki on an XO

Saq Imtiaz asked how to get TiddlyWiki saving on an XO.

The XO is the first model of the fabled "$100 laptop" from MIT Media Labs[5]. I blogged about these in 2005, when they were just a twinkle in Negroponte's eye: http://danielbaird.com/hopefulcynic/2005/10/i-want-this-megacheap-laptop-for.html
It's cool to see that good ideas sometimes work out.

Anyway there were some answers involving alternate browsers etc, but despite some promise, noone can confirm that TiddlyWiki can save properly on a regular, out-of-the-box XO. This would be a great market for TW, so if you have anything to add, please post on this thread.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/fe7c12a93bc24e12
[5] http://olpc.com/

TiddlyDesktop (tiddlers in individual little windows)

Wolfgang has been playing with the slightly aged TiddlyDesktop[6] theme by Jonny LeRoy. This theme gives each tiddler its own window that can be move around the screen just like windows in your regular GUI desktop. Wolfgang points out the little problems he came across and asks for developers to help to iron them out. So if you know any JavaScript and tiddlers-in-windows sounds cool, have a look.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1f26e2293bb820ed
[6] http://www.digitaldimsum.co.uk/tiddlywiki/

Quick Shots

Postdrivel

Wow this takes some time. Any volunteers want to help out?

;Daniel

About WHitWoT

WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by Daniel Baird. Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.

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WHitWoT #4 (Jan 23-29, 2008)