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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Object-oriented what? (was: Future of FreeBSD) Date: 20 Aug 1995 12:18:36 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 36 Message-ID: <41796s$2f3@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <DC6vJ3.L53@news.central.com> <40s5rq$397@agate.berkeley.edu> <40vaiq$qs3@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <40vat2$n80@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <411iq1$iqk@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:411iq1$iqk@agate.berkeley.edu jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) wrote: >In article <40vat2$n80@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, >Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >>Ive still got a sweet spot for an HTML engine >>based GUI. It is a standard and there are some >>spiffy tools for developing "interfaces" in HTML >>around. > >For what it's worth, so do I! I even proposed the creation of a library >for imbeding "httpd server" functionality in an arbitrary program, being >able to write some sort or virtualized HTML with callback hooks for any >of the imbeded objects, but that's going to be a lot of work before it's >something I could easily contemplate writing an install with! > > Jordan Hmm yes that would be nice. I have been putting off learning about Tcl/Tk or HTML until a consensus was reached by "the users". But I suppose its time to reach for the books and learn a little about both or enough to make a reasonable assessment. I think it is time to actually do some reading (yuk) and "hacking" (yay). Jon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corporation NaC Voice/Fax: 61-7-55-75-0151/100 Burnett Place, Research Park, Inet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com Bond University, Gold Coast Close Proximity: "HEY YOU !!!" QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 "Daddy, what's outside the Universe?" (My 5 year old.....) -----------------------------------------------------------------------