Today's showcase co-incides with a live launch at BT Centre. It's the TiddlyWeb-powered homepage for ILGA, the International Lesbian and Gay Association. The site provides data on relevant laws in each of the world's region, which may be of passing interest to some and of life-saving importance to others. There's a good summary of the underlying technology from one of the developers, Jon Lister, and a good summary of the benefits to BT in a personal account from another developer Jon Robson. The video above features a third developer, Ben Gillies.
From a technical perspective, the portal shows how the TiddlyWeb server can be detached from the TiddlyWiki client to serve data in other ways, and to produce a RESTful API "for free", and also a TiddlyWiki UI "for free" to perform back-end administration, if you have the right permissions. It also showcases some non-~Tiddywiki UI work performed in Osmosoft, such as the clickable world map, which is a self-contained and canvas-powered.
We recorded some feedback from the launch:
