From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFAD1BBAF for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:34 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkYDAHyUIknAXQIngWdsb2JhbACBbZFsAQEWIrMhhyaEOIJ5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,626,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="19304494" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2008 19:15:34 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mAIIFYKu012077 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:34 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApgBAH2VIklDWxLCbmdsb2JhbACBbZFsPrMIhyaEOIJ5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,626,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17336927" Received: from ip67-91-18-194.z18-91-67.customer.algx.net (HELO server1.bertec.net) ([67.91.18.194]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2008 19:15:33 +0100 Received: from kuba.bertec.net (kuba.bertec.net [192.168.2.16]) by server1.bertec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC58105735 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: Kuba Ober To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [announce] O'Browser : OCaml on browsers Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:15:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <492199E2.1020504@gmail.com> <200811172244.01033.ober.14@osu.edu> <1226993621.6170.3.camel@Blefuscu> In-Reply-To: <1226993621.6170.3.camel@Blefuscu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811181315.30067.ober.14@osu.edu> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 49230646.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 bug:01 cheers:01 javascript:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 abstract:01 caml-list:01 module:03 library:03 tutorial:03 typed:04 interface:06 differences:06 osu:07 On Tuesday 18 November 2008, you wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:43 -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > > > Please note that this is an early version, in particular the DOM > > > interface module is neither pretty nor well typed. > > > However, it can already be used to create little applets or scripts (as > > > in the tutorial [2], the examples of the distribution [3] or my webpage > > > [4]) and we'll be glad to receive your comments or bug reports. > > > > And the reason is?.... > > To me, the fact that you can write portable lightweight applets sounds > like a good enough reason. That and the fact that I can see this being > used by stuff like Ocsigen to make for (even) richer client-server > applications. I presume that one can have some Javascript library to abstract out platform differences, but to have a whole new language? Well, of course what works works, the question is if the performance is any good. Cheers, Kuba