- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:08:47 +0100
- To: "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>
- cc: "Michael Vorburger" <mike@vorburger.ch>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, Afzal.Ballim@di.epfl.ch
> You think I should subscribe? I'm not a member of the W3C and I don't > think they allow just anybody to join. Not everybody, but not just member either. You're welcome if you want to be on the list. Just send me a message and I will add you. > 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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