Running TiddlyWiki on the N810

Monday, 6 October 2008 | richard dale

One of the nicest applications I've found for the Nokia N810 is a single html page! TiddlyWiki consists of a page called 'empty.html' that you download and copy when you want to create a new Wiki. It works just like a traditional Wiki but is single user, and doesn't need a web server. The code for the Wiki is embedded within the page as JavaScript and CSS.

To use TiddlyWiki on the N810 I needed to fix a problem with JavaScript warnings when saving anything on the N810. I found some instructions here and here. You need to enter 'about:config' as a URL and the browser allows you to add and edit preferences. Add these two key/value pairs to the preferences to allow local file:// URLs to be edited:

capability.principal.codebase.p0.granted UniversalXPConnect UniversalBrowserRead

capability.principal.codebase.p0.id file://

It made me think how easily web applications adapt to small devices like the Nokia. I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a custom web server always running, that could handle the UI for the main menus instead of the current menu system, and replace simple apps like the Bookmarks and Notes ones.