Re: [Sheflug] Re: Hypercard

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] blueyonder.co.uk>]

Will Newton wrote:

> > for a company or whatever.  Not particularly bothered about databases.
>
> Most "Publishing Systems" for Linux/U*IX seem to be database backed for
> better or worse.

Fair enough.   Need to think again about the ISP for my pages then.   But of
course I don't have Oracle or any other serious db engine on my machine at
home

> > Java enabled.  No excluded HTML constructs.  Adding HTML code to
>
> Making sure your HTML is compliant to HTML4 (there are lots of HTML
> validators available, see www.w3c.org).

Right-oh.

> > too low-level for my needs.
>
> Have you seen Jython? (or JPython, as was) It's a Java Python interface,
> and makes Python truly "the language Java should have been". i.e. not
> another K&R style mess.

I'll have a look then.  But I think Perl is more my thing.  I'm at novice
level
I think.

> > and easy ways to create new ones and modify old ones
>
> Not seen many packages that come with anything useful. The usual fluffy
> clouds and divot-hitting golfer clip art style stuff, but nothing of much
> use as professional design. Even Dreamweaver is crap in this respect IMO.

I suppose clip-art will always be crap.  No substitute for decent graphic
design,
which costs of course.

> > changed files.  A way to indicate which files are to be published and
> > which not.
>
> The Linux solution would be to use CVS for your website. It might not be
> to your taste. :)

Oh, I use CVS.  Horrible syntax.  Oh, so some servers run CVS and I should
be able to use a "cvs export" command directly?  I'll have to look into it
more.

> > is or how it achieves them.  Hypercard has/d only 1-way links I think.
>
> Xanadu (or some version of it) is available from somewhere. :)
> www.xanadu.org is offline, ah, www.gzigzag.org is where it's at. I think
> Xanadu disappeared and is now zig zag, or something. :)

Ah.

Thanks a million for your advice, guys.  I see that it would be possible for
me to
develop a decent authoring environment, but I guess I won't find the time
to do it for quite a long time.  Not when I can't even work out how to get
the
printer daemon running again or find the time to recompile the kernel to
allow me to actually use the CD writer I've bought...

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