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A Tiddler is an entry in a TiddlyWiki. It is equivalent to a wiki page and uses a simplified markup language very similar to that used by Wikipedia. In fact the original source text for this entry was entered in a TiddlyWiki and yielded pretty much the same display. Compared to a Wikipedia page though, there are some interesting differences:

When a user wishes to update their TiddlyWiki copy from the originating TiddlyWiki, either to get a bug-fix or new functionality, the standard update procedure never changes Tiddlers. This discipline ensures that the user never loses their own TiddlyWiki's content.

And there are a number of special Tiddlers that control parts of the TiddlyWiki display, like the header, the subheader, the main menu, and the Tiddlers that will be displayed when the TiddlyWiki first comes up. Changing the text of these Tiddlers allows the TiddlyWiki owner to very easily customize how their TiddlyWiki looks without any knowledge of web page understructure. But if the user has a good working knowledge of CSS or JavaScript, there are even special Tiddlers that allow the user to override the original CSS code and to insert JavaScript code to further customize functionality (add Macros). Because these customizations are enclosed in Tiddlers, users do not have to worry about losing them if they ever need to upgrade.

External links

The TiddlyWiki distribution by Jeremy Ruston:

 


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