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I think there is a niche here for distributing cross-platform interactive multimedia
applications that use a browser for display, and then speak to the REBOL web-server
via CGI.
I did a lot of work in Electronic Publishing before the Internet took off, and we were
trying to distribute books on diskette. I've always thought that a browser would be a
great way to distribute a lot of things, but you really need a Web server to bring it
all together. The idea of a distributable REBOL web server that could be run offline
on a standalone computer is intriguing. I do a lot of work with scheools and
educational institutions who could make good use of a system like this. If it's being
run locally, most of the media could be run directly (rather than streamed), and with
a Web server and CGI, we can do some great things with interactivity. Is anyone else
interested in a REBOL/epub project?
I've seen references to REBOL/media, but haven't found any real background
information. Isn't this going to cover the Console GUI functions? Would it also allow
for distributable presentations? Details on the planned feature set would be helpful,
"machine independent user interfaces" is a little vague. The "Media" refinement makes
it sound like we could do Shockwave type things, but the description make it sound
like it's a GUI dialect. Is it both?
Also, personally, I'm not sure if I would want to load up REBOL/Core with alot of user
interface code, unless it could be loaded seperately (console.r).
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On 12/10/1999 at 10:27 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could throw together a rebol web-server and the html dialect,
the gui could be built as a form, as for the cgi, just Rebol scripts
run directly in the server. Could even be used as a module.
I know, every once in a while I have to throw in a link to pliant.
There's dialect, that does just that. Create html from a pliant script,
with dynamic content just run in the pliant server.
see: http://pliant.cams.ehess.fr/
regards
Ingo
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