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Aule Browser

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Over at my LogiqueWerks pages there is now a demo of the Aule Browser to view online or run on desktop for Windows or linux. You must first install the Curl runtime engine – something both safe and easy (Curl came out of MIT at the same time as the w3.org and has been in use in large corporations in Japan for almost a decade.)

‘Aule’ means hall or entryway (it is ‘Eule’ that mean owl … ) and because of the ‘lobby’ concept in the Io language, I had once suggested it as a name for Io. “Simple” was taken, so ‘Aule’ it is!

The Curl that is not on the pages of any book (yet)

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Over at my Curl blog I added a post on return, the Curl macro.

What I could have added were the tags of some of my bookmarks in my Curl Documentation Viewer, such as

never-returns
unreachable
EmptySource
OpenPackage

But I think that Curl templates are a very handy way to implement alternative technical ebooks: what is needed is for a technical ebook publisher such as Springer to adopt Curl as an alternative offering.

Regardless, I must get over to Lulu about that Curl ebook …