Shiraz is among the common plugin in Tiddlywiki community. It is a small fraework and extends Tiddlywiki features by employing Bootstrap CSS framework and many macros for tables, images, cards, alerts, …
I would appreciate if you kindly report here any bug and issue or requested feature based on working Shiraz 2.5.6.
NOTE
Please note that, I am keen to keep Shiraz as an integrated framework. Breaking down it to several independent plugins can cause maintenance difficult, and time consuming! But I am going to create some subplugins where it is possible.
I have one suggestion. Add transclusion backlinks support to node-explorer in Shiraz.
I noticed that the node explorer in Mehregan does it. And I copied the relevant code from there into my wiki.
Mehregan currently does not show tranclusion links though.
Or if you are open to the idea, I can open a PR that shows transclusion back and forward links. (Fingers crossed that my TiddlyWiki-fu will not fail me).
I am not sure whether you are interested in making dynamic tables a seperate add on to the Shiraz. But tiddlywiki definitely needs an actively maintained advanced dynamic table. I know of the tiddlytables and I use it extensively in my budget wiki. But it’s no longer actively maintened. We can’t blame the creator of that since he might be lacking enough time to update it. Till now it hasn’t shown any bugs. But I am interested in a few more features in it. So I don’t know how long I can keep on using it. So in case you are making Shiraz dynamic table a seperate add on, I will present my feature requests.
Mehregan shows links to tiddlers transclude the currentTiddler (may be this back-transclusion similar to backlinks), the reverse is not implemented! I mean displaying what has been transcluded in the currentTiddler! Do you want this?
Dynamic table in current state is really complex! I tried to keep it modular to be able to address reported bugs!
I believe if a volunteer with JS knowledge implements a dynamic table plugin, it would be much more simpler and faster than what I or Alan Aldrich have implemented using WikiText!
I have got already some requests like multi-columns sort, but these are really complex in WikiText!
My main purpose in updating Shiraz to Release 3.0 is
update bootstrap classes to 5.2.2
support for dark themes (right now most colorful components has color issue in dark mode)
use CSS variables to simplify styling
integrate my previous works like vertical tabs, grid templates, image gallery, sliders, … into Shiraz
A little update
Shiraz is a very rich plugin with many macros, styles, templates, … so, updating it to TW 5.3.x is a lengthy and tedious process.
Now, Shiraz 3 will be updated to Bootstrap 5.3.3 and will split into smaller sub plugins.
Tables (dynamic and quick tables) are written using the new TW 5.3.x paradigm. Macros are replaced with procedures; text substitutions are removed, and functions are employed whenever is possible.
Many $list and $reveal which were used for conditional statements are replaced with <%if ... %>
The code is much simpler now.
I hope I can push final release in summertime.
Shiraz 3.0.0 Release Candidate has been published to GitHub.
It is a release under new branch (Shiraz 3.0.0). It is only for test and review/comments.
It is not distributed in Kookma Plugin Library, nor in CPL.
I’m excited that there’s an upgrade that takes advantage of powerful and efficient new recent features of TiddlyWiki… and yet I’m also a bit concerned about this lack of backwards compatibility.
Will there be something like an upgrade path for projects that use Shiraz 2.x? I’ve invested a great deal in developing shiraz-based elements over the years, and it would be quite difficult to reconstruct everything from scratch. For this reason alone, I might not actually upgrade, despite being one of your biggest fans.
Will you at least (at some point once you’re past RC stage) be able to spell out which specific details cause backward-compatibility issues, so that it’s easier to troubleshoot conversion — without having to completely re-create every view template that uses dynamic tables, etc.?
