i've heard twiki is dynamic page that modified by anyone with any browser... or is it really...? what are the advantages of it?...

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i suppose you mean tiddlywiki? yup, it is dynamic, and can be easily modified with a browser. it's originally used for personal entries, with just your basic tiddlywiki html file (with css + javascript) and a browser, simplifying data entry without the use of a database. mostly used locally (client-side only), like in your own USB drive. it has been adapted with recent improvements to include plugins for use on a server-side environment, like the venerable wiki, but more compact.

a short entry of tiddlywiki can be found at wikipedia.

advantages are ease of use, portability, and simplicity. the only disadvantage i see is when you use it for a server-side application. as you may know by now, it can even be used to create your own blog/website, as others have done. and with the dynamic nature of server-side capable tiddlywikis, the one-page html would grow in size as fast as data is entered. you will not begin to notice it at first, as additional entries (or tiddlers) slowly trickle in... but in due time, it will become a bandwidth-hog due to the increase in page size. i don't know if this is addressed in recent times, but i'm thinking doing otherwise (like splitting tiddlers into separate files?) would run contrary to a self-contained unit.

you can check out the original http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ site, so you can try it for yourself.

 

 

 

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