Re: Ideas for next Eu
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:48:18 -0800, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:
>Everett Williams wrote:
>
>> > Someone floated the idea of using Euphoria in HTML,
>>> similar to JavaScript - an intriguing idea.
>>
>> I thought somebody was already doing CGI with Euphoria. If that
>> can be accomplished locally as well as on the server, then some
>> real power will result.
>
>I was thinking of actually being able to write web applications in Euphoria.
>I suspect that if RDS isn't inclined to get involved in the GUI portion of
>Euphoria, requesting that Euphoria run GUI web based applications is even
>more of a stretch.
>
>> In the past, you have been a real proponent of portability.
>
>I still am - but keep in mind that my focus tends to be from the GUI
>perspective, since I'm pretty much immersed in that these days. That's one
>of the reasons that I'm so enamored - from a conceptual basis - with Java.
>They's been struggling with portabilty over all the major platforms (BeOS
>support was just announced). The down side is that the Java API just keeps
>getting bigger and bigger, and the reference books thicker and thicker. That
>says something for the complexity of the task.
I would think that your own experience with attempting to map more and more of
the Windows GUI API would tell you that there is nothing trivial about the
project. The nice thing about the Java API, is that it is generally expressed in
class libs that you don't have to write, just use.
>
>Out of curiosity, have there been any attempts to write any 'raw' X Window
>toolkits?
>
>-- David Cuny
Somebody commented that the Linux beta ran under X Windows, but I am not certain
what they meant by that. I kind of doubt that there was any real linkage to the X
Window API.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
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