Erick (mainly): I've been playing with Javascript, Ajax, and other stuff today.
For some time I've been searching for some kind of technology to teach Felix with. The current 'tutorial' is ok as far as it goes, but it isn't very sexy. I played with Open Office Impress (Presentation Manager), and look at some video stuff but the content creation programs are quite hard to use .. and they're way too WYSIWIG for systematically presenting complex information. And, it's all very dependent on the client having suitable technology. Hmm. I want something somewhat interactive, which can present information multiple ways, with content which can be created in a fairly dumb way with text and a few pics .. and which everyone can easily browse and enjoy. Apart from teaching Felix, it should present the basic ideas, act as a reference manual, a help system, and even help manage user projects. Despite the heavy requirements .. the only viable client has to be a web browser .. which makes the provider a web server :) Apart from serving information about Felix prebuilt into a tutorial/reference .. the server should be able to help with user programs .. syntax check and even compile them (down to C++). This would mean people without Ocaml can still use Felix. Probably more useful though, is being able to run a web server on you own machine, and use it with a browser interface to build Felix projects. Ajaxish stuff seems quite suitable for a lot of this. One thing I see is providing things like a list of keywords which is used by the build system to build Felix. But we provide annotations, and download the keyword dictionary to the client browser, then display a list of keywords using Javascript. On mouseover ... display the annotations. -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
