Combined with ideas in What would you like to see in a TiddlyWiki calculator? and How do you use Tiddlywiki in your research work? I was wondering what if we could make buttons appear on tiddlers in the view mode, perhaps rendering found information (html snipit), or other calculations and information “on the page”.
The idea is to allow text to be selected on the view template and a button clicked that then processes the (rendered) content of the selection.
Why?
- It would be another way to build solution’s that help build solutions.
- It could assist in “screen scraping”
- One could choose text such as new tiddler titles to be created, perhaps like the new here, or excise tools but keeping the tiddlers content intact and out of edit mode, which can be difficult to read (in edit mode) if html encoded etc…
My feeling is we just need to build the selection process for the view template and be able to build buttons that respond to this selection just as the editor toolbar buttons do. Actions like tm-edit-text-operation.
- Of course this could work with custom edit forms displayed through the view template as well.
Food for thought!