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it would be nice if AltME could carry a gateway to an HTML chat for 
a single group

http://urlan.sourceforge.net/boron/doc/func_ref.html

Guys, with all this said (and I agree), perhaps this is the one things 
that needs to be the focal point for Rebol and eventually the #Not 
Rebol languages.  I know there are some tutorials out there but do 
any of them do justice to parse? I keep going back to the Codeconscious 
one: http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/parse-tutorial.htmland 
the ones at reboltutorial, but there doesn't seem to be a lot considering 
how much one can do with it.

I learnt parse using the 2.3 rebol core guide...  I thought it did 
a pretty good job of launching one in the good direction.   parse 
HAS evolved since then, but for the basic semantics and principles 
of parsing I think its pretty good.

you can also look at this tutorial by Nick Antonaccio:
http://musiclessonz.com/rebol_tutorial.html#section-9.3


IIRC nick has a good sense of tutoring, so it may be a good first 
step... he also gives links to other parse resources at the end of 
that part of his (short) tutorial

note that in practice, you'll have a dialect that specifies the whole 
web application, and when you deploy it to production, you get html, 
css, js etc. generated. but, nobody forces you to use the dialect.

How can I try topaz in Windows? Is the try-topaz.html page the only 
method? Is there a way to write a topaz program with a text editor 
and then execute it in some way?

Well, Topaz compiles to or is interpreted in JavaScript at the moment. 
There are several ways to run JS on Windows outside of web browsers 
- it is one of the ActiveScripting languages, so you can use cscript, 
for instance - or you can load the Topaz environment in a web page, 
which can be a local html file with no web server needed. None of 
this is tested yet, of course, so be sure to tell us how well that 
works for you :)

Could I have the option, that editing html page, I would see the 
topaz (on client), and once run, it compiles at that time?

missing object: look at the source of try-topaz.html. what you need 
is probably there.

Also, you only really need to install node etc. if you want to work 
*on* Topaz, otherwise you can use any web browser to just *use* Topaz, 
like in the try-topaz.html example.

I wonder if it makes sense to allow REBOL to call try-topaz.html, 
although it would be calling JS code? Then you could mix Topaz with 
REBOL for tests, etc.

henrik, do you mean something like? :

topaz: func [ block ][

 load read/custom http://server/try-topaz.htmlreduce ['POST  mold 
 block]
]


(where the post data above is replaced by whatever is required to 
properly fill in the form)

Maxim, certainly not, as there is no server side whatsoever to try-topaz.html

Topaz runs in any JS interpreter; I use node.js because it's convenient. 
try-topaz.html uses the JS interpreter in your browser to run Topaz.

http://www.rebol.net/docs/prot-http.html

Never heard of "KWATZ!" before. Here's what I found out -- http://www.livingworkshop.net/kwatz.html
and http://seedsforsanctuary.blogspot.com/2008/06/kwatz.html

Interesting choice. The exclamation point is even in there.

there's something with mime-types imo - right clicking the exe, choosing 
to save, saves it as world_win32.exe.htm, containing github html 
stuff ...

REBOL use this: version.revision.update.platform.variation
See: http://www.rebol.com/docs/version-numbers.html
I could add a system/version/variation at some point.

On the word KWATZ!, someone found a couple of good links:

http://seedsforsanctuary.blogspot.com/2008/06/kwatz.html
http://www.livingworkshop.net/kwatz.html


I first heard the word in a dialogue between an AI and a poet in 
a very good book by Dan Simmons.
[KWATZ!]

First try on a World Map:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/world/World_Map.html

Made with FreeMind and exported as Flash.

New World Map at:

http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/world/World_Map.html


I freshed it up with some colors, which is also informative, added 
system, sys-utils and net-utils, added icons for parts with issues 
and added parts not implemented yet as grays.

(Which would be a relatively complex problem anyway ...

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html)