Stuart Ballard wrote:

>>I've looked at that.  There may be some stuff there that could help me,
>>but I think they've got a different goal...
>>
> 
> They have an overlapping goal. I've asked the author of xmlterm about
> using it as mozilla's telnet client and it certainly is (or was, at the
> time, which was a long time ago) one of his goals. I hope you will work
> on making xmlterm fill this role, because it has great potential as
> such.
>


Ok, obviously I need to spend some more time looking at XMLTerm, then.

 
> XMLTerm can operate as a traditional terminal emulator, or it can work
> in its fancy XML-mode, or a bit of both. I think a mozilla telnet client
> that supports traditional terminal standards would be great, but one
> that also took advantage of mozilla's graphical capabilities would be
> even better. Think traditional IRC vs Chatzilla, which supports smileys
> and hyperlinking, for example (although I don't think chatzilla is
> unique among irc clients in offering those capabilities).



Ok, that's cool.  Sounds like XMLTerm may be more in-line with what I
was hoping for, than I realized at first...



> I do think the goals can be reconciled, and I think it would be a shame
> not to do so.
> 


Indeed.


Thanks,


Phillip


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