Quintilian aule

In his advice on remembering through loci and images, is not the 'forecourt' of Quintilian's memory architecture also our Aule ?

ad herennium

De institutione oratia

matsuri notes

My notes for the Japanese matsuri kanji page ( 祭り ) started at knowtepages.aule-browser.com as shown below (the re-sized text areas are using a Firefox feature.

I do not add JavaScript or use cookies in those pages - but what Firefox is doing to preserve the content if I accidentally close the tab - that's another matter. "Unclose Tab" restores the content.

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Study Kanjidic2's Henshall Kanji dictionary entries

I have an app up at http://kanji.aule-browser.com/ for reviewing/studying/learning the entries in the Kanjidic2 which are numberwed for Henshall's "Remembering the Kanji" book.

 
I will add a Heisig equivalent today or tomorrow depending on how this grippe progresses ...

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poems poesis

 
 
Started an new entry point or "aule" to poems.aule-browser.com at poems-poesis.blogspot.com

Not all of the poems will be presented in the Curl web content language: some will be in minimalist HTML formatted as, e.g.,

a line                           

a line                           
                                   
a line                           

and other minor efforts to leave poetry readable when being annotated or edited.

 

Zweite Elegie

I added the second of the Duino Elegies at aule-browser.

This page is also in minimalist HTML so that the source can be copied with ease to create a new page.

The minimal markup has been made as unobtrusive as possible: the BR elements are aligned to the right so that even as raw HTML the page is readable for uses such as adding translation snippets and other annotations.

Aules evolve

Over at my Aule blog I have a post on evolving an Aule as a "home page" - but one that it is with me and not at Yahoo or Google or AOL.

For some time it has been my habit to set the browser home page to a file on my PC or netbook by using an address bar entry of

file:///c:/webpages/home.html

or

file:///home/grs/websites/home.html

but those should soon go to being

aule.html

or

aule.curl

or

aule.dcurl

as Aules evolve towards being user-defined entry points with access to

remote-astronomy_aule.html

and such.  I had hoped to use a variant of Seaside for Smalltalk to generate these "pages" and another   Squeak Smalltalk framework to make them both portable and persistent.  I am now leading more towards using Robert Parlett's new variation on the Icon language and its libraries as ObjectIcon.  And in time there may be Laurie Tratt's Converge.

Two largely ignored programming options still hold my interest: the Logtalk framework for Prolog (swi-prolog is both constraint and RDF-friendly) and Oz (rules, constraints, dataflows ... )

As Smalltalkers know, it is not just the language, it is the environment, the established patterns - and the ease of testing and debugging.  I will still keep an eye on Seaside for Pharo Smalltalk and watch for Dolphin+Lesser's NG Smalltalk.  But an Aule layout keeps coming back to being a structured String specification to be parsed, persisted and built.  Rebol3 looks to be mired-down (the latest distraction for Carl Sassenrath is running his alpha on an Amiga before that alpha has stumbled into a first beta.  Oh vey ... ) and don't hold your breath for an environment.

Parsing in Icon is almost as fine as in Rebol - and there remains in my back pocket the Qtk for Oz.

No option will be as elegant as a declarative Curl UI in a web page - so they will continue - but as an option.  My next iterations are for Tcl and Ruby links over at logiquewerks.com because the Tcl aule (entry point, home page, portal, mashup) must itself evolve as Tcl 8.6 and TclOO become old-hat.  And Ruby may yet get cleaned up.  And then Java 7 and a VisualWorks 8.  And oh yes - a Rebol 3.

RDFa Drupal Open Graph

 I have added a page to collect RDFa links over at http://aule-browser.com/rdf/index.html.

There will be a separate parsing section for PEG's, Icon 9.5, ObjectIcon 2.3, Rebol 3, Logtalk and PROLOG (and SNOBOL in C ?)

The number of essential links is now near twenty - and this is in English only.

It is still not clear to me how searchmonkey will fare as Yahoo! moves to using Bing for search.

SearchMonkey for documents was already infuriating for me due to SearchMonkey being restricted to Flash documents ( given my work in Curl markup for literary documents as http://aule-browser.com/poets/ and http://aule-browser.com/phil/ .)

I still have to get a post together on RDF with Curl documents.  RDF is largely associated with the one XML syntax - but there is nothing about RDF triples that requires XML.  Curl documents which are embedded in HTML pose no problem in general since the RDF can be expressed in the embedding object element.  Curl documents which are themselves .curl applet files offer unrestricted tagging in the initial {applet } expression so the Curl runtime itself could be adapted to export RDF.  The matter is less obvious for the {include } of documents which are .scurl text files at the top-level within applet files.

The root Curl document, when unspecified, is a TextFlowBox, but with Curl 7.0 there are now ParagraphVisual and TextVisual classes. To quote from the documentation for the parent class,

This class provides a public API for accessing the contents of text-containing objects to be rendered by text containers such as TextFlowBox.

At the moment there is no option available for a popup action such as "Print" which would offer RDF triples rather than the content - and these for the Visual container "hit" as opposed to the entire "page". A Visual would need an option such as exports-rdf? and possibly a tie to a triples validator.

The whole matter ties back to whether Curl is suited for CMS - if a suitable server-side partner emerges as IT continues its slouch towards HTML5.  Or Flash 12.1 or ...

I had thought that Drupal could be a candidate, but after some exploratory efforts I lean towards a Gemstone + Seaside 3.0 option ( pul-ease do not mention Scala Lift ... )  I still keep an eye on Wicket (Hippo?), Zope/Plone and Ruby candidates such as Nesta.

Curl markup for philosophy: text annotations and translations

Over at aule-browser.blogspot.com I have a post with a link to a philosphy text example.

What I hoped to make clear is that at each of the web page views for which there are links at each page (starting at phil.aule-browser.com/truth.htm) is that it is the identical text artifact that is being loaded into each page - a simple "include" macro is present: {include "truth_text.scurl"} which file is just text with MIT Curl markup such as {mbold some-technical-term} which is my bold variant on the usual Curl {bold some-text} text format.

When I don't want to see my bold emphasis in a text, I load that same file but into a top-level Curl page in which the definition of {mbold } is to just return the bracketed text as-is, i.e., with no emphasis added.

I am preparing another page with variant text from key portions of "Logical Investigations II" with translation comparisons.  I'll add a post when that is available at aule-browser.com

I have two pending notes at philpapers.org on this approach to philosophy eText/eBook as an alternative to HTML and PDF.

4 Windows Browsers

I use Opera 10, Safari or Chrome or IE8 or Prism when I am not in a browser from those I am working on at aule-browsers.com

Opera has the smallest footprint at startup on my XP box ( I use Epiphany on linux) and I stopped using Firefox when it began to choke and bloat on my large set of bookmarks.  Opera behaves well on a few sites where IE8 misbehaves and vice-versa.  When all else fails I turn to Chrome or Safari (Opera is also the only one that passes w3c Acid3 on this box - but Safari does warm the room with its updates.)

Here are 4 other Windows browsers that you might want to consider:

Avant at http://www.avantbrowser.com/

TheWorld at http://www.ioage.com/en/index.htm

Wyzo 3 at http://www.wyzo.com/

SlimBrowser at http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

The latter offers to build your site-specific browser, so I will be happy to submit a competitive bid if that is your need!