World: r3wp

Glad I'm not the only one with this strange result ;)

Cyphre, what happens with other values?

>> 3 * 1.2
== 3,.0
>> 1.2 * 3.4
== 3,.0
>> 8 ** 2
== 64,.0
>> 1.2 / 2
== 0,5.0
>>

>> 128.128.128 * 0.5
== 0.0.0
but
>> 128.128.128 / 2
== 64.64.64
>>

seems like the decimal! datatype is meesed up from some reason under 
FF.

Both my FF and IE browser returned 217.6.  I think it might have 
something to do with your Locale settings.

Confirmed, when I changed my location and regional settings to Czech, 
I get the 128,.0

... but only in FF.

printf locale

.  German, but short example about using setlocale(): http://www.galileo-press.de/openbook/c_von_a_bis_z/c_022_004.htm

further hint that ff needs setlocacle: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/PyXPCom/2599460

I've installed the Rebol plugin (hand installed by copying the *.dll 
files to the rebol directory) for Firefox and it is listed in the 
"about:plugis" page and shows that it is enabled but I'm still not 
showing a red-blue image on the .../web-plugin-install.html page. 
  I've restarted the computer (W2K-SP4).  Any suggestions?  Do I 
need to install an ActiveX plugin for Firefox as well?

I've installed the Mozill ActiveX control and it is also enabled. 
 Still no joy.

Mozill=Mozilla

Upgrade to XP.

There's a problem with Win2K.

I don't exactly know how it happened, but I had the rebol desktop 
appear in my plugin!

Is the problem with the plugin in Win2K, or is there a problem with 
Firefox in Win2K ?

Cyphre: I will research that. Seems like a locale problem.

Gordon: The plugin is currently broken under Win2k. We're working 
on that, hope to have it fixed by the end of the month.

Cyphre: It seems like the problem is related to how REBOL is parsing 
the " * 1.7" part under Czech locale. It seems like it's not multiplying 
it by 1.7, but rather by 1. IOW, it is ignoring the decimal point 
when parsing the number. It is possible that the IE plugin build 
is defaulting the locale to U.S., hence why it works there. Note 
the following results under FF:

>> 128 * 1.7
== 128,.0
>> 64 * 1.5
== 64,.0
>> 5 * 1.2
== 5,.0
>> 5 * 2.2
== 10,.0
>> 5 * 3.8
== 15,.0

I'll need to research this with Carl when he gets back.

Graham: Please post repro steps for how you got the REBOL desktop 
to appear, if you have any.

Well, the plugin is on the home page of my IE browsers.  So, when 
I started up IE, I used the stop button to stop the plugin, and ended 
up with the rebol desktop in the plugin

JoshM: Thanks for looking into getting this working for Win2K.  Half 
of my customers and half of my machines are still on Win2K.

Graham: Have you been able to get this to reproduce consistently, 
or was this just a one-time occurance?

Josh, only ever have seen it just the once.

Josh, I said "goodbye" to my win2k machine. I'm now looking forward 
to using PG2 on XP.

Any news here ?

Update on plugin-status. Carl has returned from France, and we are 
working on fixing the Win2k problem.

Josh - could rebol plug-in release be coordinated with us here? Sometimes 
RT simply released stuff suddenly, so we could not comment further. 
Mine idea is to get some kind of coordination for plug-in script 
submission page.  It is in unpleasant state. I vote for carefully 
choosing WHAT script will be presented on main site. We have now 
chance for kind of wow effect, which will not be created, if we don't 
choose coolest scripts imo. We should look in various demo sections 
of Desktop, as well as contest and simply be sure, that posted stuff 
works out of the box ....

that is a good idea Pekr,  a day or two of public delay in exchange 
for working demos.

.

can we expect a solution IE proxy exception on rebol plugin ????? 
  :-(

Progress?

Does the plugin work yet? Does is have security holes? Does it only 
have a problem under win2k?

we all wait for RT to bring more info ... when Carl left for vacation 
in France, Josh told us, that he was redirected to do another things. 
No further info yet, just Carl noting somewhere here, that they worked 
on plug-in security issues or what, which was found as a necessity 
...

I have a program waiting to be used with the plugin. Have you noticed 
that waiting is hard sometimes?  :>)

yes, of course :-) but I would not run any plug-in app, untill some 
issues are resolved - it means - proxy, W2K bug introduced with latest 
one, auto plug-in installation for major 3 browsers ....

of course, as for rebol itself, you can prepare your app ahead - 
it is still standard View 1.3.2 imo, just in form of a dll, being 
called via plug-in dll API

My app is done and waiting to be used.  And I am waiting to use it.

anything public, or just private? :-)

It will be public when I put it on my web site.  Once I am sure it 
will work with the plugin I will release the source here.

Hopefully, everyone will find it both fun and useful.

JoshM, where are you?

Why to wait, all people here can do: do http://...to run it:-)

or post it on a reb site ?

i put rebol.exe and a small launch-script in a zip and tell "install 
rebol, click *.r" some people got it.

rar can make self-extracting exes and open the unzip-folder.

It cannot be appreciated without the appropriate data. If you will 
each send me a picture of yourself (jpeg file), then I will see what 
I can do. Can the files be sent via AltME file sharing? I've never 
used it and would like to put it to a test.

Or, if you have an interesting photo of anything else rebol related, 
send that.

... along with an explanation of what it is.