edutec wrote: > Now back to my original request, how can I get a web page to display inside > a Revolution stack?
Since we're still in the relatively early phase of the Web, so much content is interwoven with form that the task of displaying Web pages is daunting. Only a small handful of organizations have ever attempted it, far fewer have actually shipped, and I believe none of them are full compliant with the W3C standards. Given the many challenges, if the Rev engine attenmpted to do it right they would need a separate staff just for that one component. However, it might be possible to provide hooks for Microsoft's IE object and Apple's HTML Rendering Library to do most of the work (is there acorollary for Mozilla on Linux?), but even that far simpler approach has many challenges, not the least of which would be ensuring that all the required components are installed properly. I'll leave it to Kevin to tell is if or when thsat's on the priority list. In the meantime I've been using the browser as a helper app for displaying Web pages, and use the Rev-based app for everything else. Net-deliverable media seems to be migrating toward what could be called "formless content", initially driven by the demands of wireless handheld devices. SOAP, RDF, RSS, XMSG, WML, SMIL, etc. are relatively simple XML-based content containers, leaving the presentation of the content up to the client device -- in our case, Rev (SMIL is a bit of an exception but since SMIL 1.0 can be easily displayed in a QT player object it's worth mentioning). I'm writing an RSS library, initially designed as part of WebMerge 2.3 but in the interest of the community some form of it will likely be available for free use by Rev developers, along with a newsfeed database and viewer to demomonstrate how to work with the RSS spec (if I get time I'll add a simple RSS generator that will create a summary feed for any site). RSS and other RDF-based formats are a good place to start thinking about ideal scenarios for applying Rev's unique strengths (http, ftp, ISO 8859-1 translation, rapid on-the-fly contruction of objects) and weaknesses (CSS and JavaScript wpould be close to impossible to implement fully in Transcript alone). Lots of good RDF info can be found here: <http://www.w3.org/RDF/> You may also find this intriguing -- note the use of the "card" metaphor: Decks and Cards WML pages are often called "decks". A deck contains a set of cards. A card element can contain text, markup, links, input-fields, tasks, images and more. Cards can be related to each other with links.� <http://www.w3schools.com/wap/wml_format.asp> :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
