Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-09 Thread Mathias Bauer
M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 13:54:43 PM -0400, Daniel Carrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Top posting. I think that adding Javascript-like functionality would be a worthy goal. In fact... we should Javascript itself the first macro language and make it do everything

[discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, in the last two days I've been able to check this list only through webmail, that is in an almost unreadable interface. I have seen there have been a lot of posts about my obsession with doing portable OpenDocument macros in Python or whatever else. Due to the problems above I've been

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Top posting. I think that adding Javascript-like functionality would be a worthy goal. In fact... we should Javascript itself the first macro language and make it do everything Javascript currently does on web pages. Why? I'm glad you ask! Gary Edwards has this great idea of talking to W3C

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 19:45:26 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 19:14 +0200, M. Fioretti a écrit : define what could be a limited, more realistic goal (the javascript-like, in-document only macros), and list what one should do, what

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 13:54:43 PM -0400, Daniel Carrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Top posting. I think that adding Javascript-like functionality would be a worthy goal. In fact... we should Javascript itself the first macro language and make it do everything Javascript currently does on

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
M. Fioretti wrote: Please help me to understand it better: I read online that XForms is a platform independent markup language for data capture and validation. Not necessarily data processing. Do you mean that one should only write these macros in Xforms markup language or that one should

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my macro standard nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 14:38 -0400, Daniel Carrera a crit : M. Fioretti wrote: Please help me to understand it better: I read online that XForms is a platform independent markup language for data capture and validation. Not necessarily data processing. Do you mean that one should