Pliant talk forum
Feature request: 'Console' input for the Pliant interpreter
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Message posted by marcus on 2005/04/21 17:09:36 |
It would be nice if the Pliant interpreter also included a 'console' input window in which novice programmers could do experiments with Pliant programs that use keyboard input.
What do you think? |
Message posted by hubert.tonneau on 2005/04/21 17:33:29 |
I cannot do it easily with the HTTP interface. With the Pliant browser, it should be no problem.
On the Pliant browser side, it took me much more time than I wished to cope with the two following issues: . completely async protocol between the client and the server (a must to get decent usability in case of high latency such as on wan as opposed to lan) . proper handling of text paragraphs Both issues are now solved, but I still have to properly define the communication protocol details. I mean the final Pliant will use three different communication protocols: . browser to server . remote storage access (think as file sharing) . RPC (remote procedure call) and I want all of these to be consistent: . define a single encoding for mainly ascii with simple blob encoding . define easy rooting so that NAT traversal be no problem . define unified secured access (RC4 password exchange though RSA encoding as in the current secured channel implementation)
I will probably deal with providing the Windows frontend for the browser this summer since I'll have a fast dual boot test machine fairly soon.
All of this explains why release 94 is still not out there. I planned it to contain the first release of the browser, and it was not a good idea because it's a too huge jump. |