From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA14088; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:36:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14299 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:36:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (smtp2.ihug.co.nz [203.109.252.8]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f31KaC128199 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:36:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (p26-max1.wlg.ihug.co.nz [203.173.230.26]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id IAA07568; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:35:46 +1200 X-Authentication-Warning: smtp2.ihug.co.nz: Host p26-max1.wlg.ihug.co.nz [203.173.230.26] claimed to be [192.168.0.12] Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bruce@209.163.245.148 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010401221111.A635@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20010401221111.A635@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:35:14 +1200 To: Sven LUTHER , Mattias Waldau From: Bruce Hoult Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Using HTML as a standard GUI for Ocaml Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk At 10:11 PM +0200 4/1/01, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > What about using HTML-interfaces >> instead of standard GUIs like Tcl and GTK? > >Well, i think this may be a good idea (sun is doing this) if you need to run >your code remotely and for system configuration and administration. > >But, ... > >Most web browser are huge beast, running slowly and ressource hungry. Also i >think you can do less things with html than you can do with modern toolkits. > >Also there is the question of bandwith. I think cvsweb is a good example. I'm sitting here in New Zealand on a 56k modem, doing development work on Gwydion Dylan, with the cvs server being in Germany. If I want to see, say, the change log for the CREDITS file then I have two choices. I can type [1]... cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@berlin.ccc.de:/home/cvsroot log src/CREDITS ... which takes just over five seconds to fetch the results, or I can enter into my browser the URL... http://www.ccc.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gd/src/CREDITS ...which takes about two seconds, is prettier, and is more functional in that I am then only a click (and two more seconds) away from seeing the source of any version I want, doing diffs between versions, getting source annotated with who last changed each line etc. It's just not obvious that HTML is slower than the alternatives. -- Bruce [1] no, of course I don't type all that -- I'm more likely to hit "C-x v l" in emacs (because Eric Raymond taught emacs how to do that), and emacs could equally easily be taught how to fire up a Netscape window with the cvsweb page. (actually, I taught MPW Shell to do that for me, because I know how to customize it better than I know how to customize emacs) ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr