My personal website and one or two others I maintain are all done
in the
old fashioned way, a "tag view" editor and Filezilla to upload the
pages.
Not the most modern way of doing things, but it works, and both my
personal
website and the others I maintain are reasonably quick and up to
date and
intentionally not all "bells and whistles." If I had to list
software I'd
like to see for the QL it would be:
1. Email client (possible, but a lot of work - Jonathan Hudson's
programs
exist)
2. Browser (unlikely, but not impossible - Lynx already exists)
3. Website editing software (possible, but a lot of work)
4. Modern WP/DTP software (unlikely, but not impossible -
Paragraph/Prowess
exists already)
I understand from Daniele Terdina that Q-emulator for Mac will be
getting an
update soon that might include TCP/IP support. If that is the case,
I might
take on writing a POP3/SMTP mail client when my skills improve
further.
One unused advantage of a QL-specific mail client is the ability to
email
files to each other, and have the mail program protect and retain
the
headers. I might need assistance with that, but I could give it a
go.
Dave
Now this is interesting. QPC2, uQLx and Q-emuLator for Windows all
have TCP/IP support via the host OS.
In fcat, from what I have looked at the specs, the X-...extensions can
have mailer specific extensions.
Last year I had a small program working which sent and received emails
and stored them in a database. The sticking point was an editor to
create emails and wrapping it all up to allow attachments etc. I did
write a very primitive editor able to handle up to 32K of text but it
wasn't integrated. I never got as far as a fully working version
because the never ending writing for the two mags had to take priority
because of deadlines and I found the email project needed constant
attention or I kept forgetting what I'd last done. So I didn't go any
further with it at the time. But one of the things I'd hoped to do was
use the X-... mailer facilities to do something QL specific such as
file transfer or secure email.
As a sidetrack from that, I also developed a crude text browser for
displaying html emails - it simply converted html to plain text and
displayed that. More rough than ready, it is one of those projects
which sort of almost worked and is lying there waiting for me to pick
up on it.
Both have now been left long enough for me to forget what I was doing,
so it might be easier to start from scratch at some point, probably
over the summer period when less is happening.
There is of course Jonathan Hudson's QPOP3 and FTP client which I
think include source code if you wanted to study them -
www.daria.net/qdos/
Dilwyn Jones
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