Hello,
my need is just to read a tiddywiki on my iphone, stored on gdrive. Just a need to read (not write). Do you know a solution without using Quine, or Quine is mandatory?
Thank you!
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Open it in a browser.
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I read mine on my Android from Google Drive, but I have to click the 3 dots on the right, then Open with and Chrome.
Hmmm … thank you for your suggestion 
but the browser (chrome, safari) just display the code of the file and not the UX
I don’t think Google Drive on iOS lets you properly view HTML pages in a web browser. I can only view a very handicapped version in the Google Drive app. Not useful. No option to send it to Chrome.
On my iPhone, I don’t have any problem viewing my wikis uploaded to DropBox and opened through that app. I also just view them on my phone.
This is a situation that’s becoming common everywhere. Mobile browsers won’t let you read local files.
One fix on Android is to use a Webdav server (or a plain http server in your case) to serve up your file on your phone so your phone’s browser can see it. I don’t have an iPhone, but I see that this app claims to be able to supply a webdav server.
Just installed Opera for Android. It’s able to render my local TW file. I see there is a Opera browser for iPhone, so it might possibly work on iPhone too.
I just checked, and the free WorldWideWeb app:
will let you serve a wiki to yourself on iOS.
Simple make file public on Drive, copy given link and paste it to safari. At end of the link add ?dl=0" and it will call it as hosted HTML file. Then you can unpublicised file, but your link will still works if you are logged in to Google account in Safari.
Another solution is using TiddlyDrive plugin, it serves file as callable object with some specialities, but if you add text as “?blablablabla” at end of the link from sharing from TiddlyDrive, Safari means that this file is served on server and can display it. Not tested with newest Safari, but it worked one year ago.
PS: You must disable trackers blocking in Safari’s settings because it won’t transfer your Google account logins to another domains instead.
This doesn’t help for those using Google Drive—however I found great success serving HTML from my static only website.
I’ve been very disappointed in most modern services and their complete lack of serving HTML as is but instead serving it as plain/text. So many services continue to break the very core of the internet by showing HTML code instead of the rendered version. Something our browsers are natively designed to do.
This is why I maintain a super cheap static site that I can push static HTML to at any time. There are a few services that do this for free (You can use GitHub/GitLab for this). But I did wish things like DropBox, Google Drive, etc. just did it by default. Maybe they felt by doing so people would use them as web site hosting or something?
That was exactly the problem. Particularly spammers, who are constantly looking for disposable places to “farm” links to their actual websites. I think the non-free version of DropBox will still let you serve up HTML.
Just to add some further notes about using TiddlyWiki on iPhone/iPad:
- The Dropbox app does view TiddlyWiki HTML files correctly (ie with JavaScript enabled). Although I use Quine for editing work, I often use Dropbox directly for viewing wikis from my archive.
- Some text editors designed for coders support viewing local HTML files. The editor I use is Textastic which is a paid app but very good quality, and recommended
- The Codesandbox app is capable of running the Node.js version of TiddlyWiki on an iPhone or iPad. It has an integrated browser which can be used to access the wiki. The only issue is that the app will be killed if it spends too long in the background. I get around that by using the app in “slideover” mode
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Thank you for your reply. The use of dropbox is the simplest solution (just the view use-case)