Re: [discuss] Web frontend...

Feel free to use it... :D

http://www.kapsi.de/fern.php

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  Roger

On May 23, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Linuxhippy wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
>
>> As far as I know, no one is working on the web front-end.  It  
>> would very cool if you were to start hacking on this! Also,  
>> depending on what web technologies you use, you might be able to  
>> re-use some of the Java GUI components in addition to re-using the  
>> core.
>>
>
> Well, I thought about 3 possible technologies which could be used:
>
> * Java-Applet with Client-GUI communicating over a simple protocol  
> with the server
> Best usability and shouldn't be too hard to develop. BIG advantage  
> that maybe client-code could be shared...
> However, just a bit boring, isn't it ;-)
>
> * JavaScript client which communicates via an XML-protocol with the  
> server.
> Very interresting approach, same as gmail uses.
> But I think really hard to run (stable) on differnt browers and a  
> lot of work, did such a beast 2 years ago and had problems since a  
> fix for e.g. IE caused Opera break -> Code ends up with tons of if 
> (userAgent==Netscape.... :(
>
> * Completly HTML-only based client.
> Using an Servlet-based approach would have the advantage of being  
> able to run Limewire even without X on terminal browser like linx  
> and the java-only codebase. It wouldn't even add a runtime overhead  
> since there could be an Thread listening on the browser-frontend  
> port -> if a request comes in starts the servlet-engine and sends  
> the browser a redirect to the real servlet.
> Chances are good that this could make LW free-java compatible ;-)
>
> I would prefer the HTML-only client, but which way would be  
> preffered by the LW development team?
>
> Thanks for your answer, lg Clemens
>
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