[REBOL] Re: [REBOL.org] -- REBsite access
From: SunandaDH:aol at: 22-Jul-2004 5:21
Carl:
> I don't use the Desktop very often, but whenever I do I'm always impressed
by
> how quick it is to run REBOL scripts from the Net - and how under-developed
> the Desktop is for making this easy. No bookmarks, no forward button,
etc.,
> etc.
The biggest "etc" that makes the desktop very difficult to use is that it
won't work with URLs that contain parameters. That's a very big limitation.
Example: my first attempt at making REBOL.org a Rebsite involved this CGI
program:
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/reb-index.r
If you cut'n'paste that into a browser, you'll see that it returns a Reb
Index file that contains a line:
file "Scripts"
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/reb-index.r?filters=all
Same program, different parameter. And if you cut'n'paste that, you'll see
that you are drilling down the Script Library one level at a time.
Simple, and -- I thought -- elegant. But it won't work in the Reb desktop
-- try it and you'll see what I mean.
Instead, we had to treat Reb access to REBOL.org like building a static index
-- the Rebsite-build program generates over 100 Reb Index files, each with a
unique name -- and it needs to be rerun each time a script changes. That's
messy.
Sunanda.
