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Terry
11-Jun-2006
[1055x2]
As of May 2006 The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages by Murdoch 
University, Australia lists 8512 computer languages.
somehow Rebol made it on this shootout.. http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps.html
Pekr
12-Jun-2006
[1057]
FreeBasic - completly free variant of BASIC with surprising level 
of features - http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/about
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1058]
http://www.potix.com/zkdemo/userguide/
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1059x2]
nice, but really lagging, they should improve blitting a bit ...
looking at source- it is like VID, just an xml
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1061x2]
maybe nice for the first look, but I don't like it

The page or component you request is no longer available. This is 
normally caused by timeout, or opening too many Web pages. 
Continue cruising ZK Demo .  
Failed to invoke zkBox.init
zkBox is not defined
Cannot imagine making some bigger project in it
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1063x2]
it is really slow on my 1.8Athlon, Mozilla 1.8b
so slow, that using it as a rich client environment would denerve 
me after some short period of time :-) Give me plug-in :-)
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1065]
They need 10 not cached javascripts to display just the two lines 
of error message from above:-)
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1066]
potix.com states, that they don't use java-script at all? :-)
Rebolek
13-Jun-2006
[1067]
Hm, from http://zk1.sourceforge.net/release/rn-2.0.0.html- All events 
are processed at the server. No JavaScript required. 
so it must be slow
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1068]
hmm, that is really "clever"
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1069x4]
and what is this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/prototype/prototype.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/effects.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/dragdrop.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/boot.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/lang/mesg.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/common.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/au.js" 
charset="UTF-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/datelabel.js.dsp" 
charset="UTF-8">
and why they have dynamic images? src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/zul/img/tree/root-open.gif;jsessionid=51580CB61B89633DED498444EB959AED"
>> s: 0 t: now/time/precise foreach js [
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/prototype/prototype.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/effects.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/dragdrop.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/boot.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/lang/mesg.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/common.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/au.js"
[    "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/datelabel.js.dsp"
[    ][s: s + length? read join http://www.potix.comjs]
== 144313

>> print ["total js size:" s "downloaded in:" now/time/precise - 
t]
total js size: 144313 downloaded in: 0:00:07.406
it's almost the size of rebol/core:-)
PeterWood
13-Jun-2006
[1073]
and it's only advatntage is access to the DOM.
Maxim
13-Jun-2006
[1074x3]
check this one out... its much better in all regards.  IMHO
http://www.openlaszlo.org/
its the first use of xml I find interesting.  I dare say its at least 
as simple as rebol within its context of creating web pages.
a good demo of how to code in openlaszlo ... http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1077x2]
not working - server error 500 http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-dhtml/
but other examples are working - looks like nice flash apps:-)
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1079]
we need someone with so nice ui skills :-)
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1080x2]
Maxim: I will rather stay with my Rebol/Flash dialect and Rebol or 
PHP on the server side:-) but the true is, that some of the apps 
has nice design.
and hope with Rebol/plugin soon:-))
Maxim
13-Jun-2006
[1082x2]
the flash version of lzpix definitely works.. follow the link from 
the home site...  :-)  its very fluid.
the lazlo in ten minutes... gave me the exact same reaction to when 
I first tried rebol view.  wow, it actually "works".
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1084]
laszlo must have graphic artist with him. Such apps would be nice 
in View too .... e.g. I liked old capsule look of Oldes?
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1085x3]
I will continue on my skined view layouts since at least new R3 alpha 
version will be released. I would like to use same source for making 
View layouts as for my R/Flash dialect in the future. Using graphic 
which is used for skinning windows.
The Flash version will be limited as now I can do much more things 
in Rebol then in Flash
Except fonts - it's a shame, that we cannot use custom embedded fonts 
in Rebol yet:(
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1088]
does draw support czech chars?
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1089x2]
it should support if you have correct regional settings
and correct font
Pekr
13-Jun-2006
[1091]
so we can have AA fonts, right?
Oldes
13-Jun-2006
[1092]
I prefer pixel fonts (for fonts with size less then 12px)
yeksoon
14-Jun-2006
[1093]
Toyota developing their own OS
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/004276
Pekr
14-Jun-2006
[1094]
reinventing the wheel. The article not mentioning QNX and mentioning 
Windows mobile seems a bit uninformed
[unknown: 9]
14-Jun-2006
[1095]
There is good reason to build something from scratch.  Lets assume 
there are 10,000 terminals for Toyota dealers.


If you are paying Microsoft about $120 for their software, that alone 
is 1.2 million.  


And windows crashes a lot, requires lots of maintenance, and lots 
of overhead to configure, oh, and is filled with security holes.


Building a simple platform that just does a few things can be well 
worth it.
JaimeVargas
14-Jun-2006
[1096]
IIRC there was a BMW that was involved in accident locking its passenger, 
later it was discover that the problem was due to a change on the 
controller OS to windows embedder. So I guess now BMW are using something 
else.
Pekr
14-Jun-2006
[1097x2]
F-Script - scripting OS-X - http://www.fscript.org/
I thought next surprise will be OS-X switches to REBOL :-)
JaimeVargas
14-Jun-2006
[1099x2]
F-Script is really nice. Having available for about 3 years now.
What a pitty is not available in other platforms.
Henrik
14-Jun-2006
[1101]
jaime, how deep can you go with it? I don't feel too inclined to 
dive into objC programming right now
JaimeVargas
14-Jun-2006
[1102x3]
Well you can do full apps with it.
The most famous one is 'Colloquy' and IRC tool.
The good part is that you don't need to do any memory management. 
But I think you need to be familiar a bit with the Cocoa API, because 
F-Script wraps it into an smalltalk syntax.