[exprla-devel] Re: [xpl] Well, I Can Post Again....

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- In xpl-dev@y..., Jonathan Burns <saski@w...> wrote:
Michael Lauzon wrote:

> Oh, here is an FAQ question, if it already hasn't
> been thought of:
>
> What will XPL acomplish?  (Did I spell that right?)  :)

"Accomplish", since you ask :->

Got it, but I won't be sending a snappy answer out anytime soon,
I bet. This is one for the whole group to throw back and forth
for a few months.

For what it's worth...

1. I'm hoping XPL will accomplish a unification of Web formats
for data, programs, interfaces and protocols, which will let
us snap quite complex distributed applications together out of
components.

2. I'm also hoping, since at present I'm reading up on server-
side CGI, that XPL will make the simple parts of Web app design
actually LOOK simple, instead of looking like a maze of disparate
protocols all based on different pieces of foundation software.

Please add to list.


A couple of projects I'd love to work on, once we get started:

(1) You know Lynx? The venerable text-only Web browser? Obviously
it parses HTML, although it doesn't do anything when it finds an
image. So, there it is, open-source, unburdened with GUI widgets
and probably quite lightweight. With a parser inside.

I want to author Markup Lynx, with a full XML/XPL parser.

(2) You know MOOs? Object-oriented MUDs?

XPLMOO is mine, along with anyone I can rope in.


Gonna be sunk in jobsearch land for a few days. Catch you soon.

Jonathan

It was not until their numbers had dwindled from fity to eight,
that the dwarves began to suspect Hungry.
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