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 mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
