HTML Dialect Release

15-Apr-2008 13:40 Filed in: HTML Dialect

I'm now releasing the first alpha version of the HTML dialect that I intend to use for REBOL/Forum. I hope this will grow into a solid and extensive dialect later, but for now I feel the need to get it out among you, so you can study it and perhaps improve on it.

The dialect is meant to allow you to write HTML code without ever leaving the beloved REBOL syntax. The dialect syntax is also very small, letting you write very compact webpages. An example:

html-parse [page "My page" css style.css [div title "My webpage"]]

Produces this webpage:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>

  <head>

    <title>My page</title>

    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

  </head>

  <body><div class="title">My webpage</div></body>

</html>

Read more examples in the documentation. As usual, the code is available in the Downloads section.

I hope you'll like this! Enjoy!

Edit: Fixed link to documentation. RapidWeaver does not like relative links in blog posts.

A Web Forum is Born

14-Apr-2008 00:49 Filed in: REBOL General | REBOL/Forum

Right here and now somewhere in Cyberspace (or rather in an AltME world) a new web forum is being born. There's been a lot of debate on how to build one and why we want to build one and why the heck we aren't just using phpBB or some such, like everyone else. Well, it wouldn't be much of a REBOLlion if we were, would it? Read More...

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