- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:30:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Pete Harlow wrote: > > Thinking about my earlier reply to this post reminded me of something I > tried in the mid - nineties. My client at that time made railway ticket > vending machines. These generally had a PC inside, gubbins for handling > cash and something to code and print magnetic tickets. The PC generally > had a standalone application to generate the GUI, etc. > > Anyway, the point is this. The devil was in the details, this particular > devil was getting data in and out of the coin system, ticket printer, > etc. > > If Web Apps had some hook in it to do this sort of communication by > passing XML fragments to peripherals, it could have a bright future in > this kind of application. Wouldn't running a local Web server with CGI scripts to do the low-end work be the best solution to this? The problem with allowing Web pages to access peripherals is the high likelihood of security issues arising. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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