Re: A89: Internet Link (TCML and HTML)


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Re: A89: Internet Link (TCML and HTML)




In a message dated 1/10/99 6:57:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, TurboSoft@aol.com
writes:

> yeah, that's true.  if you're ever going to use the internet software, it's
>  not going to be ONLY to get games (because you can get them maybe even 
> EASIER
>  with a computer.
>  unless there are some special features that a TCML site could do or 
> something,
>  then l see that the only way for this to have real functionality is for the
>  calc to do HTML from the web.
>  The calc doesn't have to work with ALL the html commands; if speed and
space
>  require, then the calc could just maybe "skip" these commands (like tables,
>  and images)

Special features? Like perhaps you can download programs and data from the
internet directly to your calculator? An HTML parser would be an adaptation,
and it's not heresay to maybe have both an HTML and a TCML parser, so long as
you can have one, the other, or both. It's just that HTML is written for a
completely different type of computer, and it would not go over well on a
calc. A TCML language could be optomized for speed and space on a calc, while
HTML tends to be a rather wasteful language, made for computers that have
multi-gig hard drives where having a 50MB web browser is no big deal.

Who would go through the trouble of writing TCML sites? I'm very sure that
ticalc.org would gladly make one, they can't be a supersite without it! :)
Dim-TI and tifiles, the other ticalc megasites, would most likely write one as
well. Not only that, but people like me who develop things for the calculator
(well, WILL, anyway. :) would make sites that have information as well as
direct downloads of games and utilties.

TCML would be very useful, and it would find many applications. I could even
see math teachers taking on to it, and using it for math labs and such
(assuming that they could get the equipment, somehow.) Just like the web, it
could have many uses.


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