_canonical_uri not working in hta

So, I’ve noticed that when run as an hta file, _canonical_uri tiddlers break the wiki. I don’t know if this is a bug, a feature or if I just suck at this, I know the html version of the wiki works fine but when converted to hta it kinda just breaks loading any external content. Any ideas

hta, is not really supported anymore. Can you be more precise, what happens when you use a _canonical_uri field. What do you want to load. JPG, PDF ??

Do you load from local or from a mounted drive?
Which TW version?

I’ll have to double check in my vm later. But any version mostly. I’ve yet to find a version that doesn’t fail, I tried using .tid/.txt files but it’s always a file access issue, I will give a more thorough explanation tonight when I can spin up a vm

There will be no more development for hta. So if you need to start a vm to test it. Why do you want to use it?

In Essence I have to run a vm because Linux has no ability to run mshta/.hta files. I primarily use tiddlywiki hta as a framework for writing and executing scripts with welfords TWexe, I’d like to have _canonical_uri functionality so that I have a way of essentially “bidirectional” talk an example would be a script executes, generates a response tiddler then tiddlywiki can read it in real time. As of now there is a semi workaround where I can use share to have the script generate a url tiddler and feed it back. I’m aware it’s a very niche case and I’m more so trying to see if I’m doing something wrong or it’s just not possible with tiddlywiki. I know that hta execution is more so a backup editor and hta isn’t exactly stable as even though it’s still maintained the engine it uses is not. So outside of compatability and security no new features will be added. and so essentially I’m just trying to see if I’m doing something wrong or if it’s a depreciation issue thx to mshta using older ie for rendering markup if that makes sense? When I fix pcs I execute my scripts and programs with tiddlywiki as it’s so much easier to organize and concatenate code with it.

We had a report of a problem with TW v5.2.7 and code-mirror. We did fix that one in v5.3.0. So v5.3.0 and v5.3.1 which was released 2 months later as a bugfix release, theoretically should work with hta.

Links to older versions can be found at: https://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki%20Archive