Re: [vwrap] Some thoughts on Josh's Linden Lab Legacy Protocol discussion

[Lawson English <[e-mail]>]

David W Levine wrote:
> [...]
>
> The client, on arrival to the region, fetches the URI, using content
> negotiation and gets back a "cue" to display to the user that a service
> is available. (Content negotiation let web based internationalization
> and such simply happens) The cue is presented to the user as the client
> sees fit, and if it is invoked, an associated URI launches the
> user interface web service, which can be pre-fed with context, based
> on the user.
>
> Now, this is doubly inappropriate for a programmatic approach. We neither
> want to make programs screen scrape for content cues, nor do we want to
> present them with a nice pretty user interface to manipulate. Thus,
> a structured data path would be desirable. More on thinking about how
> regions and scenegraph can expose APIs for performing tasks in a 
> future post

Goes back to the AppleEvents/AppleScript model of having predefined 
suites of actions (programming-actions as well as user, in this case), 
plus the ability to provide "dictionaries" for custom actions and 
parameters that they accept. There's plenty of available models for how 
this could work (at a less user-oriented manner) in languages with  
introspection. We just need to adopt a plain-text variant (no hash codes 
and such).


Lawson