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RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal
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Page, Bill |
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RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal |
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Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:33:26 -0400 |
On Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:17 AM Tim Daly wrote:
> i am trying to avoid 1.2 million lines of javascript with browser
> dependent ifdefs. we already have that problem with C.
I agree. For desktop use we can easily standardize on one browser.
I recommend Mozilla's FireFox. Except for jsMath which is provided
by another project, I don't expect a browser-based interface to
Axiom to require more than a few hunderd lines of JavaScript.
> instead of trying to work "on top" of the browser, which limits our
> abilities to the current available set, i'm trying to think of it
> as a large library of code we can exploit in new ways.
Because of the DOM api and extensions, it is possible to work with
the browser "as a large library of code" without having to get
inside.
> and the careful choice of a lisp available API would make the
> browser more useful as a front end and be less maintenance in
> the long run.
As pointed out in another email, it is possible that a lisp API
for the Mozilla browser will be implemented by other developers.
If it exists we could in principle use it instead of JavaScript.
I would expect it to be some time before it was a stable as the
current JavaScript API.
> we want to do everything the browser does (because people use
> them) but locally we want to do so much more. restricting ourselves
> to require a network and vanilla browser code severely limits the
> possible creative choices.
For desktop use no network is required.
I would not characterize Mozilla as simply a "vanilla browser". It
has a lot of provisions for plug-ins and extensions.
For access to a Doyen-like server over the web, I think we may
have to be more flexible with the choice of browser.
Regards,
Bill Page.
- [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal, daly, 2005/06/20
- [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal, daly, 2005/06/21
- [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal, daly, 2005/06/21
- RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom, browsers, and crystal,
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