[REBOL] Re: REBOL Plug-in for MSIE and other browsers
From: gerardcote:sympatico:ca at: 13-Jun-2002 15:15
Thanks Ammon for these precisions.
To answer to your question, Yes there seems to be an Inferno cmd to launch
some primitive calls on the hosted OS on which the Inferno Network OS is
installed.
Also for you information, if you want to know more about theis very
promising product - which shares some views about network sharing with
REBOL - look at this site : http://www.vitanuova.com/company/products.html.
You'll find there some concise and interesting information about both
products, that is Inferno Os and Plan 9 OS.
Inferno is an extension of the Plan 9 Network OS - which was conceived and
developed by the fathers of the Unix OS and of the C language, that is
Ritchie, Kernighan, Robs, etc ... all working for the Bell Labs since about
30 years or so). The extension will render Inferno to be an embedded network
OS to be embarked on some small appliance devices - in some way like REBOl
is doing with some other embedded OSes - like Win CE for example. It builds
up from the Plan 9 Network centric OS.
The Plan 9 OS itself is permitting to share information in a distributed,
network centric way, something Unix, Linux and other current OSes are not
doing very well at all, according to the authors of the 2 products.
If I come back to my first discussion subject - that is doing a REBOL
Plug-in for MSIE, do you know - or someone else listening - where I can get
specs about the making of a Plug-in for MSIE (and eventually for Netscape or
other browsers this must be easier to find ...) ?
I spent some time looking for this kind of information on the MS site and
searching for some related info with Google but found nothing like specs or
a tutorial relative to developing this kind of software.
I only found some already done plug-in material. Obviously there must be
some doc about the way to do it ... since there are such products !!!
Thanks in advance for all submitted reference,
Gerard
P.S. As an alternative, "we" could simply retrofit REBOL to work hand in
hand with Inferno on any hosted OS currently available for the products and
get the best of both worlds... Read-on !
