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[edit] iTW Beta by Bidix
BidiX has a iPhone optimized version of TiddlyWiki available here: http://itw.bidix.info/
[edit] TW on iPhone using a data url bookmark
I believe it's possible if you sync the bookmark from safari via iTunes. But you can't save. (Though save to url should be possible. Anyone thought about this?)
[edit] Saving using virtual disk
It is possible to store TiddlyWiki documents on a virtual disk on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
[edit] Notes from Jeremy
by Jeremy
I've had the chance to play with TiddlyWiki on an iPhone. It works as a pretty perfect clone of the desktop Safari experience, with iPhone pinch-zoom goodness to make it navigable on the tiny display. The problems are:
- it takes ages to load; over EDGE it's excruciating, but even over wifi you have to be pretty patient
- even once it's loaded, JavaScript intensive actions can be painfully slow. For example, clicking on a tiddler link can take more than a second to open the target tiddler
- it doesn't seem possible to load the TW file from a file:// URL; therefore there is no obvious avenue to explore for saving changes locally
- the desktop UI although usable doesn't really work well on the tiny screen; built in iPhone apps like Mail show a more iPhone-native way of accomplishing some of the same things
The planned stripping back of the core code should improve the performance situation. It's possible that a solution to the saving problem will come in the form of a native iPhone app that wraps WebKit to provide a custom host for TiddlyWiki.
In the short term, I've started investigating a plugin to attack the last problem, optimising the TiddlyWiki UI for the iPhone. (Inspired by http://www.joehewitt.com/iui/)
Cheers
Jeremy
[edit] Notes from Phil
by Phil
Jeremy mentions that it isn't possible to load the TW file from a file:// URL. This is because the iPhone (and iPod Touch) do not have a 'publicly accessible' file system and therefore the browser does not support the file:// protocol on these platforms.
Cheers
Phil
