From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1943b1e68472411f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 22:13:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!isdnet!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:12:38 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1024549982 88857 137.194.161.2 (20 Jun 2002 05:13:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Envelope-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26457 Date: 2002-06-19T22:12:38-07:00 From: Bob Leif To: Jeffrey Carter and Preben Randhol et al. If the XML XForms package were implemented in Ada, it would be possible to employ it as the basis for both applications. Please note that both the description of the project and the code for project Oberon by Wirth and Gutnecht was covered in a book of 548 pages. Oberon includes a compiler, an operating system and electronic mail service. XML can be run under XHTML. However, I believe that an all or mostly Ada implementation would best be done in pure XML. The coherence of a two language enterprise can be maximized if the Ada package specifications and XML schemas use the same data types. -----Original Message----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Preben Randhol Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:49 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC Jeffrey Carter wrote on 13/06/2002 (00:41) : > > I would like a browser/mail reader/news reader that is more secure than > the existing ones. Engineering it in Ada would be very helpful in > achieving that. Why on earth do you want to put all these things into single application? I would rather have two optimised applications that can talk to eachother then one single application. One reason is that each project would be smaller. The other is that when I use a web browser I don't want to be forced to also have its mail reader installed as I might want to use some other program or visa versa. At the moment I use Galeon (a web browser only) which uses the Mozilla redering engine. -- Preben Randhol