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Re: Kura - status report

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Sunday, October 31, 1999, 18:39
* 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>