[plt-scheme] Help Desk

Shucks, if only Microsoft would somehow tightly integrate a web 
browsing facility with their OS... ;)

On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

>  For list-related administrative tasks:
>  http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
>
> We discussed that, too. The distribution will grow a lot then ...
>
>
> On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 08:57 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:
>
>>   For list-related administrative tasks:
>>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
>>
>> --- Dor Kleiman <dor at ntr.co.il> wrote:
>>> In one of the versions of DrScheme, 203 I believe,
>>> there was an external help desk, that used the
>>> browser. Why is this no longer available? The
>>> internal help desk is quite annoying, especially
>>> that message box of 'getting data from server'
>>
>> There was a lot of discussion on this at the time.
>> IIRC working with an external browser was hard to get
>> right over all browsers and platforms that PLT
>> supported.  It was decided the energy would be better
>> spent elsewhere and so the external browser was
>> abandoned.  If you don't like it I look forward to
>> your XPCOM binding (the component system used in
>> Mozilla; Python and Ruby have bindings).  And yes, I
>> really do mean that -- being able to use the Mozilla
>> rendering engine and widget set would be really good
>> IMHO.
>>
>> No flames intended and sorry, I don't have time to put
>> my money where my mouth is.
>>
>> Noel
>>
>>
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