Archive for the ‘Curl RIA’ Category

Serving Curl pages from Apache

Monday, June 29th, 2009

If you are going to serve Curl pages from Apache, you must have access to the .htaccess file or otherwise be able to specify MIME types.

The support team at the Curl Developer Center suggests these:

AddType text/vnd.curl .curl
AddType text/vnd.curl.dcurl .dcurl
AddType text/vnd.curl.scurl .scurl
AddType text/vnd.curl.mcurl .mcurl
AddType application/vnd.curl.pcurl .pcurl
AddType application/vnd.curl.car .car

You may have to explain that these MIME types cannot affect any user who has not installed the Curl runtime on their PC.

You may have to explain that these are for Curl and have nothing to do with cURL from www.haxx.de

If your web hosting service does not provide for user-defined MIME types, there is likely no choice but to look for another service.

Remind them that you do not need access to .htaccess

Invite them to visit www.curl.com or to learn about the beginnings of Curl at M.I.T. many years ago.

Or invite them to do a Yahoo! search on RIA Curl

Site-specific Browsers and IE8

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Over at LogiqueWerks Curl SSB pages there is a demo of browser pages running without the ability to swipe text and mail it anywhere. Internet Explorer 8 comes with accelerator tools for Evernote and such which are useful - but they are not always appropriate for pages with sensitive information.
The page at LW allows you to open a Curl applet page which remains in communication with the browser but has no text selection or context popup menus enabled.
The “Examples” button on that page opens in that same desktop window; closing the window returns you to your web page as does using the hyperlinks on the Curl applet pages.
Other examples can be found elsewhere in the LogiqueWerks pages. All require download of the Curl RTE

Now linked to Technorati

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I have not been able to do the same for my blog at Curl.