Re: [discuss] Web frontend...

I believe pure HTML would be preferable.

We used to have a browser project on limewire.org that had a very crude LimeWire
interface via localhost browser connections.  I wouldn't say that any of it is
worth resurecting but it was done with simple GET requests from the browser.

Thanks
-greg
Quoting Linuxhippy <[email protected]>:
> 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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