- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:24:36 +0100 (BST)
- To: Damian Steer <D.M.Steer@lse.ac.uk>
- cc: www-rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
I think this is a great piece of work, and something that's very much needed. I'm going to do some testing next week to see if non-geeks see the point. I'd love to see a pure java version but don't have the time or energy to hack it myself. The pints offer still stands if that's any incentive... libby > > I better explain the history here. Libby Miller was attempting to > write such an app (some of that code is still in RDFAuthor) in Java + > Swing. It was a nightmare. So I started porting it to Java + MacOS > X. Which was easy. > > The NeXT development tools (as they once were) are very easy to use, > which meant I rarely had to worry about UI stuff. I like an easy life. > > Libby has offered an amount of beer (I forget how much) to anyone who > ports it to Swing. I need beer, so tried JBuilder - nasty. But the > offer stands, I believe. > > I might try porting it to GNUStep, since it would then work on my > machine (linux) and (possibly) Windoze. > > Regardless, I'd like this to be seen as a demonstration of a class of > tools that would be really useful to non-geeks. > > Anyway, you could always buy a mac. iBooks are very nice ;-) > > Damian > > - -- > Key fingerprint = 30F0 FB16 DA72 D8F2 DA3D B3D4 0322 C207 E993 B729 > rw-rw-rw- the permissions of the Beast | BALTIMORA P2PBSH > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> > > iD8DBQE72IM+AyLCB+mTtykRAgWCAKC+fF+CPc70VL53uGqCnX1ZN/lkKACg+OhL > kcdVSfdS6i14NI4bu2e0vnM= > =3huh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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