In case you haven't seen it, just ran across "Java Web Start", a web portal concept very similar to that written in MetaCard at the Himalayan Academy, which inspired my own experiments (links to all below). "Web Start" is a small window that lists available apps/applets on the web. Open one and it downloads from the web and runs, all independently of a web browser. Simple concept but especially valuable with MC stacks which can't run in a web page like a java applet (but who cares - see Richard Gaskin's "Beyond the Browser" link below).
Rich Herz [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ReactorLab.net Java 2 (v. 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 beta) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/index.html Web Start is part of package and is shown in this page in graphic of Java 2 hierarchy (second layer from top on left) Himalayan Academy site MC web portal http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/ which inspired my experimental MC "web courses" http://mechanics.ucsd.edu/research/herz/web_24/ (this took me a couple hours to get going in MC - wonder how many progammer-hours and $$ it took Sun to do Web Start in Java?) REBOL View, a similar idea http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html Richard Gaskin's article "Beyond the Browser" http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/NetApps.html _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
