Re: [cobalt-developers] Bits flying over fences ...

[Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

GG Wallis wrote:
> What I think will happen is that RH or someother GIANT will get rid of all
> that java, js, etc... crapola and develop a C/XML/Skin based  fast, simple,
> web appliance (C a real fast easy to use and very portable programming
> language, the one used for linux -which without, the web appliances would
> never have existed. XML seems to the future of electronic ineractive docs.
> Skins are what you need to "roll your own customized
> interface -unfortunately dreamweaver sleep deprivation land, but billable
> hours heaven...lol"),

The Cobalt interface *is* written partly in C, and partly in Perl -
which is what people use when they tire of writing C programs...

The user interface uses PHP, with XML for menu and schema definitions.
It uses JavaScript for the interface, but *no* Java (except on the SCCS)

It's all based on templates/skins, and it's fully internationalized.
(on the RaQ 550 there is only 1 skin, and only 2 languages - but anyway)

So there is nothing different about the *technologies* used ?

In fact, CCE is two *generations* above eg Webmin (which is closer to RaQ 1)
It's "just" that Webmin is free of charge, more open and more portable...
(if only it wasn't so ugly to look at, and technical and difficult to use?)

That all this technology is now available as open source is a Good Thing!

Linux could use some more end-user administration friendliness,
and Plesk/Ensim/CPanel/H-Sphere could use some more competition...

Now maybe someone else can continue Cobalt, where Sun dropped off?

--anders