ah, 'tis true it could be built on top of TK or AJAX but the low level details are somewhat different and always painful. TK does callbacks and needs a function whereas AJAX would need to listen for XML requests on a socket.
and though CLIM is high level it appears to allow you to manipulate regions in ways that may not have low level support and have to be simulated (e.g. X-banded vs Y-banded regions). anyway i'm still very far away from these detail as i'm taking a top-down approach to learning the problem. if nothing else i will have successfully merged the documentation with the source code as a literate program. but i do think that the general purpose browser interface is worth considering because it's becoming much more of a "platform" than a "front-end" facade. that is, it's providing a lot of features in a ready-built way rather than just printing text. i was looking for an API for the browser but it looks like javascript is the only game in town. javascript, it appears, will allow you to redefine functions on the fly so in theory i suppose i could build a lisp-javascript compiler-like thingie to push functions into the browser. it's all speculative at this point. i'll know better when the funcall meets the arglist. t _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
