Re: [zzdev] URLs / referential contents of cells

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

O Woof--

I didn't know you meant referential across the *net*!

Prob. a good idea, but maybe not immediate.  

Hmm.

ChrzT


At 04:08 AM 10/2/98 +1000, you wrote:
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>
>My current project is the encapsulation, but the URLthingy is such
>a NEAT idea I can't stop thinking about it ...
>
>
>Thoughts so far:
>   Extend URI::URL to grok osmic URLs.
>   Write OSMIC::Client to fetch documents.
>
>   How do we know how often to update the URLs?  Every time we visit
>   them is way too efnet ...
>
>   To get a cell's contents, we check the first line with is_url(),
>   if it is, we fetch it instead of displaying it.
>
>   Maybe lines after the first can have other info like how ofnet to
>   update, when we last fetched it ... etc?
>
>
>Xanni?
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>
>Goss
>
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