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scriptingNews outline for 5/6/2000

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:5/6/2000; 6:45:07 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 5/6/2000
Msg #:17070
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10PM: I have decided that we will stop hosting the site with the defaced graphics. The decision is explained on The Flounder, which has become the venue for this discussion. Many thanks to the editor of that site, Simon Evans, for providing a neutral space for us to do this work.

A bulletin I sent this evening to EditThisPage.Com members.

It's official. The Zope guys have checked in XML-RPC support into Mozilla. Yahoo!

Wow, birthday presents everywhere. Edd Dumbill has just released the final beta of XML-RPC for PHP. Thanks Edd!

I wrote a set of Frontier scripts that call Edd's server.

There's a reasonable chance that an LDAP server for XML-RPC will come online this weekend. ";->"

We still need a scriptable spell-checker that interfaces through XML-RPC. And a search engine. (UserLand already has one, but we want to outsource this function.)

Can Apache be far behind?

Gary Krakow: "My experience with Apple's iBook SE spoiled me. I got very used to surfing the Web on that laptop, via my DSL line, wirelessly, anywhere in my apartment. But, when I had to return Apple's AirPort equipment, I asked the SOHOware people to send me what I needed to get a Windows notebook to do the same thing."

Peter Coffee: "..even this defense is bypassed by Microsoft's proposed XML-based Simple Object Access Protocol, whose active-content messages are expressed in streams of what looks like simple text." Bad bad bad. You may someday see a SOAP packet in an email enclosure, but until a mechanism is added to run the packet, it's no more dangerous than a soup recipe.

Garret Vreeland's statement about fair use of graphics he created. "All my free graphics are gone. Members of this weblog are still allowed to copy codebits they admire, but from this day forward I no longer allow the copying of any graphics without express written permission first."

It's unfortunate that Garret's generosity has been abused by defacing his creations with hateful messages. The consensus of members of the ETP community who expressed an opinion is that we should continue to host the site, but I still have doubts about the wisdom of this. To be clear, the words are Grohol's, the images are Vreeland's.



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