From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-08-28T17:43:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, MetalOne wrote:

<snip>
> As it turns out, I am beginning to think the notion of a
> cross-platform GUI is flawed to begin with.  At least it is not
> optimal.  It may be satisfactory for some types of work.
</snip>

i was just talking to someone about this today.  we tried this:

  #!/usr/local/ruby-1.8.0/bin/ruby
  require 'webrick'
  include WEBrick

  fork do
    sleep 1
    exec "netscape http://127.0.0.1:2000/hello_world"
  end

  s = HTTPServer.new( :Port => 2000 )

  class HelloServlet < HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
    def do_GET(req, res)
      res.body = "<HTML>hello, world.</HTML>"
      res['Content-Type'] = "text/html"
    end
  end
  s.mount("/hello_world", HelloServlet)

  trap("INT"){ s.shutdown }
  s.start

to our suprise, it worked.  this may be the most realistic cross platform
browser concept.


-a
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