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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "werc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/werc9?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
