Re: Re: about your concept

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:28:53PM +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Ulrik Mikaelsson wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it would be possible to abstract server-side behaviors, such as
> > "scrollable", or "clickable" and provide template-based reactions to those
> > events, as well as a "custom" behavior which would pass on events to the
> > client?
> 
> Interesting idea.  It would tie in quite well with the theme engine having
> a concept of "clickable thing", "labelling thing", and so on.

Together they help pave the way for further abstraction. Me like.


> > XML is a great language for many purposes, but perhaps we should
> > also consider a format like EBML, or some own proprietary protocol
> > to keep bandwidth-usage down to a minimum.
> 
> The "proprietary" protocol could be as simple as Y remote object method
> calls in the right sequence.

I'm thinking something like QNX' ``canned message'' built out of those
remote object method calls. For those not familiar, QNX is a message
passing microkernel OS, and canned messages are a pre-built message
pending in the kernel, to be delivered on a fast path to the recipient
on the sender's signal. Repeatedly if necessairy. This allows for very
quick passing of messages for which the sender already knows what it is
supposed to say. If it wasn't for the single destination it'd be a great
way for spamming. For Y the mechanism makes for nice server-side macro
sequences. Tell me if I'm stating the obvious. Could very well be this
is the same as the GL display lists principle on a different layer, I'm
not that familiar with GL. The principle seems useful, just what layer
we're on is different. If we can make both cut short, so much the better.


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