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[announce] O'Browser : OCaml on browsers

Benjamin Canou
- Kuba Ober
  - David Teller
    - Kuba Ober
      - Vincent Balat
        
        David Thomas
        
        Benjamin Canou
        
        William Le Ferrand
- Jon Harrop
  - Kuba Ober
- Florian Hars
- Paolo Donadeo
- Burgisser Francois
  - Gabriel Kerneis

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From:	David Teller <David.Teller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] [announce] O'Browser : OCaml on browsers

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:43 -0500, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > Please note that this is an early version, in particular the DOM
> > interface module is neither pretty nor well typed.
> > However, it can already be used to create little applets or scripts (as
> > in the tutorial [2], the examples of the distribution [3] or my webpage
> > [4]) and we'll be glad to receive your comments or bug reports.
> 
> And the reason is?....

To me, the fact that you can write portable lightweight applets sounds
like a good enough reason. That and the fact that I can see this being
used by stuff like Ocsigen to make for (even) richer client-server
applications.

Just my two cents,
 David
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