IE Plugin: Congrats To Carl and Staff (and some requests/proposals/suggestions)

Hi Carl, staff, and list. I just happened to drop by at the REBOL site, and discovered the Alpha release of the new View dll. Downloaded and installed it, and it is beauty! The demo UI that is displayed by default is visually pleasing. I'm very excited about this new technology, because IMHO this opens up a relevant commercial market for REBOL programmers/consultants. I'm so excited about this technolgoy that I've even created a new email address, to be able to remain subscribed to this list ([rebol--techscribe--com] is being spamed so massively, that I constantly run out of mailbox space, and then I get kicked off the REBOL list.) I 'm looking forward to the announced Plugin Developer's Kit (PDK). Any idea when alpha or beta of PDK will become available? Suggestion: PDK built-in end-user licensing mechanism. 1. For commerial applications I would prefer not to have to include the REBOL dll in each released PDK based application. Instead, the standard REBOL dll should have the ability to load an application specific dll created with the PDK. I would be supplying the application specific dll and the official View plugin would then load the binary application dll. 2. There should be some licensing mechanism included, such that binary application dlls created with the PDK can demand some verification against the originating domain name. I.e. if the Web site is accessed at www.techscribe.com/plugin-demo and delivers the Web page index.html, and index.html submits a dll for the View/Plugin, then, upon loading this dll, the View/Plugin may check for a valid license key against the domain name www.techscribe.com or against www.techscribe.com/plugin-demo, or www.techscribe.com/plugin-demo/index.html. The PDK application dll would instruct the View/Plugin whether it should check for a site-wide license, or for a Web page specific license. The View/Plugin will then request a URL for the license code, and the View/Plugin could then simply compare the license code to a key created by encrupting one or the other part of the URL, in order to verify that the application dll is being applied to an authorized Web page, similar to the way Unix passwords are treated (i.e. the URL or parts of the URL would be encrypted creating a unique key, and that key would then be compared to the license key stored at the advertised URL, similar to how Unix passwords are stored in the password file as encrypted character sequences, and are then compared to the result of encrypting the user's input, when that user responds to a prompt demanding his password as part of his login.) The application plug-in provider would then be able to license his technology either on a per Web page basis, or per Web site license (volume discount), etc. There's no reason why REBOL Technologies should not receive a (albeit miniscule ;-) percentage on the license fee... 3. RDBC? Another possible source of income fo REBOL Tech would be to include an RDBC technology, similar to ODBC, or JDBC, to enable IE Reblets to interact directly with online databases. RDBC based database transactions would be supported with the same vocabulary already in use for series!, based on a new series! data type, namely dbtransaction!. I.e.

>> trans: open rdbc://user:[passwrd--www--techscribe--com]/mydatabase >> type? trans

>> first trans

>> last trans

>> foreach [name firstname status] trans [ print ["First name: "

Am Freitag, 5. M=E4rz 2004 22:22 schrieben Sie:

> Hi Carl, staff, and list. >

> Suggestion: PDK built-in end-user licensing mechanism. > 1. For commerial applications I would prefer not to have to include the > REBOL dll in each released PDK based application. Instead, the standard > REBOL dll should have the ability to load an application specific dll > created with the PDK. I would be supplying the application specific dll > and the official View plugin would then load the binary application dll. >

> TIA, > Elan

Hi Elan, Carl does not participate here very often now. I suggest, to get involved in plugin discussions, to try to join Rebol-View altme world, where there is the plugin group. You have a chance then to talk directly to joshm who is helping Carl implement the plugin. Anton.

Hi Anton. I attempted to join the world you refer to by downloading the Altme software and installing it. Apparently there is a whole complex access protocol that requires and invitation, setting up and account and all sorts of things. I''m not sure how all of that works. So, I think I'll just leave at that for now. If you think that this topic of a licensing engine (see previous email e: [REBOL] Licensing Engine for Commercial Applets ) should be raised at Altme, please be so kind and forward it to their plugin group. TIA, Elan Anton Rolls wrote: