Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Portals Mail List
Author: Andrew Wooldridge Posted: 5/15/1999; 8:05:22 AM Topic: Portals Mail List Msg #: 6283 (In response to 6207) Prev/Next: 6282 / 6284
You know I have tons of ideas, I've posted many here already (distributed consultant information, saved searches as channels, etc.)My biggest challenge is trying to learn Frontier - it's learning curve is immense - and I'm a scripter at heart! (albeit javascript).
To be honest, I've bought Frontier, but there are so many things like Zope coming out - i've had sort of a wait and see approach. So many more apps are more accessible than Frontier in terms of the fact that they are free and downloadable immediately.
I can see the benefits of Frontier, and the large community of users is attractive, and I can see the benefits of moving to a database format.
If I had one wish for frontier, it would be somehow to incorporate javascript as another native scripting language (not just jscript via some kludgy method).
I love Frontier's cross platform binary compatibility, and many other features, but for instance it took me two days to figure out that I had to install mainresponder on my own! That sort of thing should have popped up in the install script - perhaps saying "you need to also run the install script on mainresponder..."
Reading the docs were no help - the only way i found it was casting about till i found the readme.html in the frontier directory.
Yeah I know RTFM, but still this could have easily been made easier to find out.
So not to be entirely critical, other than the learning curve, this is a really great program, and I look forward to all the cool stuff we all will be creating.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: Portals Mail List, Dave Winer, 5/15/1999; 8:26:34 AM
- Frontier Newbies Toolbox, Dave Winer, 5/15/1999; 11:12:33 AM
- Re: Portals Mail List, Dori Smith, 5/15/1999; 7:37:06 PM
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