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Title: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: GadgetMaster on June 27, 2003, 01:39:51 PM

Ukiah, California, USA (10-June-2003) REBOL Technologies today released the source code for the REBOL/View Desktop to promote open source development of future versions.

The Desktop module is the default user interface displayed when REBOL/View is started. The Desktop is essentially a non-web-based Internet browser that provides a simple method for users to execute REBOL applications distributed across systems the world over. REBOL programs, utilities, documents, images, presentations, and other files and folders appear on the desktop as icons.

"This is an experiment of a sort," said Carl Sassenrath, architect of the REBOL language. "We want to enable the REBOL development community to help shape the future of the top level REBOL/View experience."

Changes to the desktop will be incorporated in new releases of REBOL/View, starting with version 1.3, to be released later this summer. In addition, REBOL/View 1.3 will allow the desktop to be dynamically loaded from disk or the Internet, allowing further changes to be made to the desktop without requiring new releases of REBOL/View. For security, the desktop module will be encrypted and signed using RSA encryption technology.

The source code for the REBOL/View desktop can be found on the REBOL web site at www.REBOL.com/downloads/viewtop1200.zip

Source:  http://www.osnews.com/index.php (http://www.osnews.com)

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: seer on June 27, 2003, 02:59:16 PM

Looking at this rebol webpage; this is really something nice.

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: downix on June 27, 2003, 03:19:21 PM

I want this on MorphOS!

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: bhoggett on June 27, 2003, 05:00:34 PM

I think this sort of news rocks!

Nice one Carl.

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: DanDude on June 27, 2003, 06:07:32 PM

OS 4!  OS 4!   :-D

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: Targhan on June 27, 2003, 11:02:56 PM

REBOL RULEZ!

Title: Re: REBOL/View Desktop Now Open Source
Post by: RexxMast on June 30, 2003, 08:37:46 PM

REOL is fantastic. I have been playing around with it since it came out. It is an amazing thing,  very powerful and very small. I have several useful REBOL scripts like one for deleting spam mails that are not directed to my real email address or any other  like mailing list that I have exempted, which are not directly sent to my real email adress.

RREOL does indeed rule! It is very capable, and some truely amazing things can be done. Plus it is not hard to grasp and learn either. It can do alot more than the simple script that I mentioned above too. One example is you can completely run a web site using only REBOL!

I love it!   :-) Plus, it was conceived and designed by Carl Sassenrath the father of EXEC., so it has to be cool!