Cool... is this the modernized Amiga?
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It appears that the webserver is suffering heavily from the/. effect, so I will comment briefly on what I saw before the system went down.
Essentially the GUI looks to be something modelled very heavily after the Amiga's Intuition UI. It is not immediately apparant to me what type of Video System abstraction they are using, but it does not appear to be X-Windows are a derivative.
As to software, they have ported XEmacs so it already supports the virtualization of at least one other OS (wink). Beyond that, it appears that they QT as well as some basic UI sys-admin tools (ps, top, etc).
They've also brought over some really nice software such as Apache, QMail, wu-ftpd, etc and claim that most of those came over with only minor alterations. This implies that they are either using a Unix like kernel or some Libc-based POSIX emulation layer.
Anyway, I'm sure that we'll hear tons more as soon as the webserver recovers, but overall it looks like it could be a promising project. A UNIX-like OS designed from the ground up around a solid GUI could be really nice.
I've seen the article to which you are referring with this remark. He makes some very interesting points with regards to the fact that anything possible in XSL could also be done with Stylesheets and programmatic translations.
Basically, these views are correct, however, they also seem to miss the point of XSL.:-) XSL is not, nor is it likely to ever be a full-fledged programming language. XSL is a declarative translation language used for converting from XML to other forms of XML and/or HTML.
XSL separates the programming logic of the site from the display logic in a relatively clean manner. The advantage of this is that it allows Designers to use advanced graphic oriented tools such as eXcelon Stylus to develop the look and feel of the site, rather than relying on developers.
You can see an example of an entire site run by XSL/XML at HeadlineW atch.com, where it provides all HTML content, as well as RSS and WAP feeds.
I've used several servlet engines in the past, and here's what I've found to be useful:
New Atlanta ServletExec 3.0 - I've seen this one used succesfully before, and it was even used for a while with Javalobby.org as a plugin for Apache. It should be platform independant, but it is dependant upon you using a supported webserver (Apache, iPlanet, IIS, etc).
Orion Server - This is a 100% Java Webserver with built-in support for XML/XSLT/WAP/etc. It also fully supports servlets (of course) as well as JSPs and EJBs. This is the product currently used by Javalobby. Overall, I think that it's a great solution. The performance of this solution is excellent.
Anyway, I'm sure that there are plenty of other options, but I've used both of those and found them to be of good quality and performance (Orion being the fastest).
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why doesn't it use the Monitor's Plug'n'Play capabilities to determine its optimal refresh rate? Most modern monitors support some system of self-identification, right? It always works on my Win98 box, anyway.
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It appears that the webserver is suffering heavily from the /. effect, so I will comment briefly on what I saw before the system went down.
Essentially the GUI looks to be something modelled very heavily after the Amiga's Intuition UI. It is not immediately apparant to me what type of Video System abstraction they are using, but it does not appear to be X-Windows are a derivative.
As to software, they have ported XEmacs so it already supports the virtualization of at least one other OS (wink). Beyond that, it appears that they QT as well as some basic UI sys-admin tools (ps, top, etc).
They've also brought over some really nice software such as Apache, QMail, wu-ftpd, etc and claim that most of those came over with only minor alterations. This implies that they are either using a Unix like kernel or some Libc-based POSIX emulation layer.
Anyway, I'm sure that we'll hear tons more as soon as the webserver recovers, but overall it looks like it could be a promising project. A UNIX-like OS designed from the ground up around a solid GUI could be really nice.
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Jess
Basically, these views are correct, however, they also seem to miss the point of XSL. :-) XSL is not, nor is it likely to ever be a full-fledged programming language. XSL is a declarative translation language used for converting from XML to other forms of XML and/or HTML.
XSL separates the programming logic of the site from the display logic in a relatively clean manner. The advantage of this is that it allows Designers to use advanced graphic oriented tools such as eXcelon Stylus to develop the look and feel of the site, rather than relying on developers.
You can see an example of an entire site run by XSL/XML at HeadlineW atch.com, where it provides all HTML content, as well as RSS and WAP feeds.
Anyway, I'm sure that there are plenty of other options, but I've used both of those and found them to be of good quality and performance (Orion being the fastest).
------ Jess
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why doesn't it use the Monitor's Plug'n'Play capabilities to determine its optimal refresh rate? Most modern monitors support some system of self-identification, right? It always works on my Win98 box, anyway.