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[Randall Reetz]

Does anyone here remember what one used to have to do to "write" postscript to generate a circle?  How in the world keeps confusing description and processing protocols with creation and editing workflow is beyond my scope of understanding.  What makes for a good description protocol (machine facing) makes for a horrible creation process (human facing).  You have to hide the protocol behind human facing editing environments – direct manipulation and creation environments.  If Jerry can pull off an english-like page description interpreter, my eyes are wide open and excited.

What I have always wanted is a browser that goes way beyond "view source", allowing instead an "edit mode" that allows direct manipulation of page elements in vitro.  Editing might mean resizing a box or the width of a column simply by dragging it.  It might mean typing an english command "bigger font in the title", "no, twice as big as the body text".  It might mean talking while dragging "this video should fade to black as it ends".

But a first step is developing the translation semantics that work between the base description protocol (XML, HTML5, PostScript, Flash, what ever) and what people do and say when they want things to change.

I applaud Jerry's effort in this direction!!!!!!  My only frustration is that Rodeo (and other high level solutions) might remove the impetus for RunRev or some xtalk environment to provide a smooth development ramp from the very human xtalk and the very inhuman C and other industry standard binding languages that allow universal publishing to any (or most any) hardware/OS platform.  Exporting source in C would allow xtalk developers to work as humans and publish directly to industry standard compilers.

Randall





On May 8, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Ian Wood wrote:

> It's pure coincidence, I'd been thinking earlier this week that Rev would be perfect for generating HTML5 stuff online/on-the-fly, but without having the required amount of web knowledge.
> 
> I'll be watching with interest, and it's sparked off a few ideas for 'intelligent' photo galleries...
> 
> Ian
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> On 8 May 2010, at 14:44, Jerry Daniels <jerry.daniels at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ian, YES that's exactly right. revServer is excellent for this chore and ones like it.
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