I observed: Using the "Click Effect" Element pulse is interesting because it helps identify the html element where clicked. It is a hint of what using the browser dev tools inspect does.
This makes me wonder if an alternate plugin could allow one to "click and copy html elements, or classes" specified in the html from the screen.
This would bring a simplified version of making use of the inspect tool tool to locate elements and the applicable classes on a TiddlyWiki
Actually we may be able to launch an innerwiki that has such a plugin installed where the user can select any visible element from an empty wiki, and lookup its critical details needed when customising or designing
This may work well in conjunction with the new layouts switch to assist in the development of new layouts, especially if a designer can quickly identify the appropriate class or html element, simply by clicking it.
Such a tool could simultaneously copy the resulting value to both the clipboard and as the content of what we can call a clipboard tiddler. The system clipboard allows the result to be placed anywhere else on the device, but the clipboard tiddler allows additional functionality to be designed to respond to the values, such as advanced search, links and references, documentation lookup etc... in the current Wiki.
behind this ideas are the following possible features;
The idea that in cases where we may want to copy to the clipboard, we also copy to a clipboard tiddler is a powerful pattern,
Then regardless of what is in the system clipboard the wiki can paste from its own clipboard into tiddlers.
This can be extended to list most recently used or a history of copy to clipboard actions, and pasted from a dropdown of prior values,
both on tiddlers and in text.
This would be a useful extension to the current copy to clipboard actions in the core, not to mention custom implementations.
When we have wiki clipboard's such as a tag names, even fieldname/value pairs it is possible to have buttons or icons on which to drag and drop values to apply then to the displayed tiddler.
In closing the possibilities I described here could be used to help users and designers a like to make use of TiddlyWikis "self documenting" features given its open source, to learn about tiddlywiki itself.
From: https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/rtTrJ4Iwj3s/m/80ByZo7HCAAJ
I observed: Using the "Click Effect" Element pulse is interesting because it helps identify the html element where clicked. It is a hint of what using the browser dev tools inspect does.
This makes me wonder if an alternate plugin could allow one to "click and copy html elements, or classes" specified in the html from the screen.
This would bring a simplified version of making use of the inspect tool tool to locate elements and the applicable classes on a TiddlyWiki
Actually we may be able to launch an innerwiki that has such a plugin installed where the user can select any visible element from an empty wiki, and lookup its critical details needed when customising or designing
This may work well in conjunction with the new layouts switch to assist in the development of new layouts, especially if a designer can quickly identify the appropriate class or html element, simply by clicking it.
Such a tool could simultaneously copy the resulting value to both the clipboard and as the content of what we can call a clipboard tiddler. The system clipboard allows the result to be placed anywhere else on the device, but the clipboard tiddler allows additional functionality to be designed to respond to the values, such as advanced search, links and references, documentation lookup etc... in the current Wiki.
behind this ideas are the following possible features;
In closing the possibilities I described here could be used to help users and designers a like to make use of TiddlyWikis "self documenting" features given its open source, to learn about tiddlywiki itself.