Re: Kura - status report
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 31, 1999, 18:39 |
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* Boudewijn Rempt (bsarempt@rempt.xs4all.nl) [991031 00:08]:
> I'm close to bringing out version 0.0.3, but I wanted to share my
> elation - I've succeeded in breaking up a text, automatically finding
> matching bits in the lexicon, and - tada! - presenting it in the form
> of an interlinear text, and - tada! again - exporting that interlinear
> text to html (and printing it!).
How modular is Kura? Maybe there should be an interlinear API and
word-database API etc. so that one could slot in the pieces one wants, or
simply not use the pieces one doesn't need.
> Also, Kura is starting to look more and more like a special kind of
> web-browser, and I'm toying with the idea of separatng the database
> backend from the frontend and putting a webserver as an intermediary
> between both.
Heh :) Who was it that said that ordinary applications were dead and
that the web was the way to go? Will demand a bit of the browser,
though, just look at Java's AWT, not exactly bristling with controls...
tal., who needs a holiday from this Now All-New! University -> Sunnydale
High nightmare before madness ensues... </minirant>