(07-28-2023, 03:48 PM)grymmjack Wrote: Aha! I did some research on TiddlyWiki.
So, and forgive me if I have this wrong, it sounds like TiddlyWiki is very similar to the spec for a Web Component?
If so, that's pretty forward thinking stuff.
I don't quite grok why you want to do what you're doing specifically in TiddlyWiki - besides (and no judgment or tone here) that you just want to, and want to do it because you love TiddlyWiki?
The Tiddler word is a bit odd; at first I thought a Tiddler was a person, but it's not, it's a thing in a tiddlywiki?
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"Web component" doesn't resonate with me.
"Single Page Web Application" and "quine" resonate with me better. (Me, I call TiddlyWiki a "hyperlinked solutions' platform".)
Many folk like using TiddlyWiki as second brain, for note-taking, GTD, Zettelkasten, etc. (whatever one may use a personal wiki for, and even as a wiki for teams, but I do not like it at all for collaborative work.)
Me, I have two uses for TiddlyWiki:
- intertwingularity slicing and dicing
- a platform for creating single-page web applications
Whatever anybody uses it for, I know of nothing else that can handle transclusion like TiddlyWiki. For a small critter, it is a beast, a real champ, at the job of handling componentization and transclusion.
Why would I use TiddlyWiki as the platform for BAM? Aside from Rapid Application Development, there is nothing out there that can let me build BAM in the way I want it to work: a single-HTML-page application that works offline as well as online, that will work in any standards-compliant web browser 15 years from now, and has everything needed (including software development process support) in one file (it is a bit like a "bottle garden", or a virtual machine of the fantasy kind.)
If somebody wants to try and emulate what I'm doing with TiddlyWiki without TiddlyWiki: good luck. I'll run circles around you and the team of people trying to help you with your project that tries to build an equal to BAM.
Jeremy Ruston is from the UK. In the UK, a tiddler is a small fish. The word "tiddler" encapsulates the philosophy of "wiki pages" in TiddlyWiki: they normally ought to be small. Then the small tiddlers come together via transclusion in whatever views are needed.
"Tiddler" is a reminder of the philosophy: keep it small. Thus reusable. And the payback is huge.