[cap-talk] CapGUI (was OCap directory discussion) (was: Waterken Server (was: A paper on web-keys))

[Jed Donnelley]

At 08:22 PM 1/25/2008, John Carlson wrote:
>...
>If someone wants to talk about CapGUI, (maybe Jed with his CapDoc or
>CapDesk), I think that would be great.

"CapDoc" is just a blue sky name for a concept that I won't
repeat here.  CapDesk (which I'm not affiliated with except as
a supporter) on the other hand is an OCap system with windows
and a GIU that you can get with E, e.g.:

http://www.combex.com/tech/edesk.html

Give it a try:

http://www.erights.org/download/

>Also aspects of sharing GUIs interest me.
>
>And the event driven aspect of the GUI interests me.  What if I could
>share a window with you, but not give you the capability to invoke
>event listeners.

I don't understand the issue.

>Is Joe-E limited to web browsing?

Certainly not.  It's a general purpose programming language.  A
subset of Java, e.g.:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/joe-e/spec-20061222.pdf
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/joe-e/

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html