Re: A89: Internet Link (New language?)

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Re: A89: Internet Link (New language?)


Dang!  That's pretty impressive.  I like the idea for the one-char codes.  Are you going to make the
browser assume that two lines:

L
B

exist at the beginning of all of the pages?  (or maybe just "L")  I think that this would need to be
done or maybe we'd have to add error-correction.  One more thing- is there going to be support for
any type of picture?  I was thinking something along the lines of:

S%111111111%10000001%10000001%10000001%10000001%10000001%10000001%11111111

so that it would display a _S_prite of an 8x8 box.  There would have to be limitations, of course,
but I think that this would be a good idea.

-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: ZeromusMog@aol.com <ZeromusMog@aol.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: A89: Internet Link (New language?)


>In a message dated 1/11/99 4:46:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>Daniel7073@aol.com writes:
>
>> I agree.  Why create our own standard, when there is already another
>standard
>>  (HTML) that weould serve the same purpose?  If someone could create a TCML
>>  browser, it would be just as easy,  or easier, to make an HTML browser.
>
>As someone previously said, HTML is made for at least a 640x480 monitor, and
>pages often don't display correctly on that size. (example: acz.org). HTML is
>a bloated and messy language, and while that's OK for a 233 mhz computer with
>a hard drive that averages about three cents a meg, it simply won't do on a
>calc. While someone could write a simple HTML interpreter, I'd imagine that it
>would hog a lot of memory. With a language designed for the calc, a LOT of
>space can be saved, and the look of the page will be nicer overall.
>
>I was also thinking that the language could be extremely easy. Someone
>mentioned having a tag on each line that looked something like this:
>
>(2Welcome to my page!)2
>
>Would display "Welcome to my Page!" in medium-sized letters. (The standard
>font for the calc. After some thinking, I decided that it could get easier,
>but be based on the same concept, where the first letter or character of any
>line would tell the TCML interpereter what to do:
>
>C
>3Welcome to my page!
>H
>B
>L
>2Do you enjoy calculator games? I do! And that's why I program them!
>
>This would display "Welcome to my page!" in large letters, centered on the
>screen. (The C). Then, it would make a line (the H) do a line break (the B)
>then display some body text in medium letters, left justified (the L). Having
>one element per command line would make the interpreter smaller and easier to
>write. Not only that, but having only ten or so tags would make it easy to
>use- one simple command sheet could cover the entire language!
>
>Now does that beat the crap out of HTML for simplicity, or what?