On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 01:14 AM, Larry Price wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Dennis Eberl wrote: > <snippage lines="50" topic="mac lust" quoted="Dennis Eberl,larry a price" > /> > >> >> My current fascination if the Internet in general and PHP and MySQL in >> particular. XML et alia on the short horizon... >> >> ETX
Probably no connect to you thought below but I'm an old Ham Radio operator who has the habit of using ETX to signal "End of TeXt"... > have you done much with xslt? No. I'm an XML virgin, but I am currently very excitedly reading about XSL (or more specifically XSLT's ability to handle XML documents). > It's a pretty neat way to go about templating presentation. Yes, that's what I'm beginning to learn. > And xml-rpc seems like a pretty sane way to wire components together. And, yes, again. I've had to put off learning about XML-RPC but may pursue it now. I was originally interested in news feeds. My current interest is in opening up the Internet for access to the blind in an efficient way using a Braille printer (a device that "prints" Braile characters out on a little bumping touch pad. If I can get into the program I'm interested in, which requires learning Braille (usually only by site), I'd like to "go blind" long enough to become really proficient and to get permanently burned into my brain the exact communication needs of the blind. Magnified screens for the partially sited and talking books are all well and good, but Braille is a more efficient way than a magnified one-letter-a-a time way to read, and talking books may one a passive consumer not an active mentally and imaginatively engaged participant in the act of written communication. (Imagine missing something and having to try to go back on the tape, ugh!) Larry, if you are into any of this and can point me at sources of info that might shorten my learning curve, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks. > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus > http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes > http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus > ludi)
