- Updates - Linz Oberon

From: Bernhard Treutwein <"Bernhard>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:50:37 +0100

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Hi Doug,

I did like your idea about automatic updates, although I also understand
Chris Burrows precautions. The problem was that I couldn't find a solution
how to implement "javascript:alert(document.lastModified)" in CP, when
trying
to find a solution, I got lost in W3C's DOM and other smart
definitions/solutions.
(maybe this is another popup of the recurrent problem of standardization and
generalization).

Just a thought: I don't know if you saw the post about "Oberon Script"
posted (also) by Chris Burrows about Oberon infiltration at Microsoft
Research (subject: "[BlackBox] - Oberon spotted at Microsoft") on
20. Juni 2006 01:40. If I remember correctly, it is about interfacing
Oberon and JavaScript, although it was interfacing in the opposite
direction. Despite of the direction, the author (Ralph Sommerer)
might have an idea how to interface Oberon/CP to JavaScript.
As far as I remember, he can be contacted at: som{([at]})nowhere.xy
I asked him about availability of "Oberon Script" but got an answer
that he isn't yet ready for releasing ...

regards
    Bernhard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G. Danforth" <Danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
To: "BlackBox Mailing List" <blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:38 PM
Subject: [BlackBox] - Updates - Linz Oberon


> Folks,
> My previous comment about Watson and System-3 was not correct. Watson
> is not a web browser.
>
> I dusted off some old code from Linz V4 and found that it still executes
> on my Windows XP machine.
> Linz has modules Web and HTTP which seem to execute but gives me a
> access denied error.
> I probably don't have the parameters configured correctly.
>
> I'm attempting to translate Web and HTTP to Component Pascal but there
> is quite a lot of code and
> it is slow going. I tend to do a complete translation so that I can
> understand what is being done and then at the
> end realize that 95% of the translation was unnecessary and then extract
> the core routines.
>
> Don't hold your breath. There should be an easier way.
>
> I have written a module "Updates" which is driven from a file with a
> list of URLs that you edit.
> Each of those web pages is then accessed (in theory) and compared
> against previous modification
> dates. You are then notified if any of them has changed (pops up a
> window with web links to the
> modified pages).
> The missing routine is Updates.GetDate(url: ARRAY OF CHAR; VAR date:
> Dates.Date).
>
> -Doug
>
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>

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