I apologize in advance for forwarding this entire article, but I couldn't
locate an on-line version to just send a URL.
Anyway, this looks interesting....anyone heard of Curl before?
- Chris
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Curling up with Hot Technology Transfer
by John K. Waters
CAMBRIDGE, Mass--It's not enough these days for college professors
to while away their tenured hours in ivory towers. What university
presidents want is "technology transfer," that often elusive
conjunction of pure science and filthy commerce. No one can accuse
the folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Laboratory for Computer Science of loafing in their lab coats.
Under the direction of Professor Steve Ward, the Curl research
project has just produced its first commercial release: the Curl
Surge 1.0 software environment.
The Curl project has some big names attached to it. It was
instigated by local business leaders and such MIT luminaries as
World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and Dr. Michael L.
Dertouzos, Director of the MIT computer lab. According to Robert
A. Young, chairman and CEO of the newly founded Curl Corporation,
Curl's technology is "the future of the Web."
"With it," Young said, "organizations can reap tremendous
financial benefits by harnessing the power of client-side
computing, reducing the size and volume of downloads, and
integrating the fragmented development technologies of the Web
into a seamless whole. For users, Curl technology delivers the
fast, rich, highly interactive Web experience that has only
been a promise until now."
Specifically, Curl is a new language for creating Web documents
with almost any sort of content, from simple formatted text to
complex interactive applets. The Curl Content Language was
designed specifically for use on the Web. It integrates
mark-up functionality, scripting functionality, and a
full-featured, object-oriented programming language--all within
one environment. Curl technology can be used with existing
Web technologies, such as HTML, CGI, and JavaScript, and with
multimedia animation tools, or it can be used in place of them.
Curl is intended to be a "gentle slope system," Young said,
accessible to content creators at skill levels ranging from
authors new to the Web to experienced programmers, said.
According to Young, an applet written in the Curl Content
Language is delivered by a server, like most Web content, but
"lives" on the client and works well when embedded within an
HTML page or when it replaces the HTML page altogether. The
applet can "talk" to any server-side technology, such as a CGI
script or JSP/ASP, with no modification to the server. Because
JavaScript is usually embedded into an HTML document, the Curl
Content Language can complement or completely replace
JavaScript on the client, providing the interactivity and
integrated dynamic content that the Web developer needs.
The Curl Surge product, now available for download from the
company Web site, is a browser plug-in for viewing Curl content.
The beta 3 of Curl Surge Lab, a developer environment for
creating Curl content, is also available for download.
For a brief overview of Curl and its underlying philosophy,
point your browser to http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/curl/. Or
check out the Curl Corp site at http://www.curl.com/html/.
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