Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the feedback. :)


> > What's keeping DQSD from running on alterntive
> > operating systems?
>
> Well, probably the main thing is a significant number of
> users trying to port it to those alternative O/S's.

I've seen a number of people in different forums, and here, mention
that they wanted a *nix version of dqsd. Granted, I know nothing about
developing for linux, but if creating a shell toolbar is possible
using a typical installation then it shouldn't be too hard to port.


> Some of the stuff the DLL provides...

>From the list, my first thought is that none of these would be
required from a webpage (parsing the xml files would still be
necessary but that wouldn't necessarily be bound to the dll). I'm
working on a webpage distribution, the hard part is converting the
code in the base js files to their necessary location and to work with
the server. Slowly but surely. ;)


> There are also alot of IE5+ dependencies in the JScript
> core.

These are things that could be (for the most part) handled at the
server or handed differently, though, right?


> The XML files themselves could be certainly be used as a
> basis (given work was done to get rid of IE dependencies
> in the search scripts).

This is one of the reasons I wanted to add a 'requirements' section to
searches. It would not be required, but searches meeting certain
requirements could be more readily assumed to work correctly on
alternate platforms. Devs could peruse the code as submitted and add
the values to searches after they were in cvs.

Regards,

Shawn K. Hall
http://ReliableAnswers.com/

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