- From: Silas S. Brown <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:47:59 +0000
- To: "Michael Vorburger" <mike@vorburger.ch>
- CC: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, <Afzal.Ballim@di.epfl.ch>
Hi, You think I should subscribe? I'm not a member of the W3C and I don't think they allow just anybody to join. Anyway, I've now updated the alt_filter. I'm afraid I can't copy it to another machine, because all the other machines I have access to run Unix. But I'll try and make sure ssb22 is up for the time being (let me know when the presentations are). Rather than get people to check the box, you can of course grab the long URL and put it into a link. Of course, if you have a Win32 server and you'd like to run the gateway on it then you could (although the downloadable version on accu.org doesn't include the code to run alt_filter because this is still rather developmental.) C++ is my native language too, and the gateway is 100% GNU C++. (I didn't use lex to write the HTML parser, because it had to deal with broken HTML too. Instead I used my own classes.) Can I have a look at your source? I can't guarantee it, but there might be some way of putting this together. Although, I would want to make sure that there aren't too many tight interdependencies, so we both have the freedom to carry on developing without worrying about treading on each other's code. I'm afraid there's no portable way of getting it to run as a long-running web process, though. But it would certainly make it faster to integrate the two C++ programs rather than have one spawn the other (and the command shell in between). Anyway, I'd be worried about the security implications of keeping a permanent record of data. Some malicious user's bound to point it at a phoney web page to mislead its database, or a massively big web page to fill it up. One thing I personally find helpful that my gateway does (I mean gateways on any machine other than ssb22, eg. on excession.ucam.org) is, if there's an image in a link with no text alternative, instead of writing out the image's filename, it can write the filename of the link's destination, which is usually more meaningful than that of the image. If we were integrating then we'd need to sort out things like this (ideally, the user should have the choice). Regards -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://epona.ucam.org/~ssb22/ "Every kingdom divided against itself comes to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand" - Matthew 12:25
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