TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki — Issue #71: Deprecate the .tiddler file format
Author: Jermolene
Created: 2011-11-16 18:57:41+00:00
State: open

The TiddlyWiki core uses `.tiddler` files to store the default shadow tiddlers.

The `.tiddler` file format is pretty horrible: it's represented as a

nested inside a

, but the content isn't HTML encoded (the cook tool handles the encoding when it builds). Having a file format that looks like HTML but doesn't obey HTML rules seems perverse and undesirable.

So, I propose that we deprecate the `.tiddler` format, and stop using it in the github.com/TiddlyWiki repositories, replacing it with the much saner `.tid` file format.