Smak and flip are awesome, great job!

As for changing the app interface, I'm looking forward to see what you
come up with.

Thanks!

uriel

P.S.: Didn't post earlier because we had discussed this on irc already
anyway... will wait for some more concrete ideas before posting to the
list.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:56 AM, yy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Some time ago, uriel asked for suggestions for werc2.0, I would like
> to propose some changes on applications.
>
> For those who don't know, lately I have been developing some werc apps
> (smak [1] and flip [2]). I wrote them in a let-get-this-working way,
> but now I have learned some things and, more or less, they are being
> rewriten. One of the reasons is that I would like to be able to use
> smak and flip as stand-alone applications. For example, I'd like to
> use smak to generate thumbnails and local galleries (static html pages
> to be viewed without a web server). In this way, I could also use flip
> to render pdf documents on the browser.
> In practical terms, this means restructuring them in different
> scripts, so that an rc script is used to generate the content and
> app.rc uses that script and fits its output into werc. In fact, this
> is not a big problem, only moving some text between files and using
> some function arguments.
>
> This message is to suggest to do the same with the other werc
> applications. I can see the use of wman to generate a local copy of
> html man pages, or blagh to keep a log about anything. An extra
> advantage of this approach is that werc apps would work on plan9 out
> of the box. I have read in some todo or roadmap the intention to add
> to werc the option to generate static html, so I'm not sure if this
> would be a step on that direction or you had another path on mind.
>
> Every comment is welcomed. I have many more ideas, but I'd really like
> to know what the other people on the list think before going on with
> my mental masturbations,
>
>
> [1] http://hg.4l77.com/smak/ (eg: http://yiyus.info/img/)
> [2] http://hg.4l77.com/flip/ (eg: 4l77.com/pdf/)
>
> --
> - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com
>
> >
>

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