Preserved Topic: Curl ???

Has anybody seen this yet? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48818,00.html

Does this look like it might be the next step for us?

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There's been a great deal of talk lately about how the future of markup will be an ever-greater division between structural markup (HTML/XHTML/XML) and layout markup (CSS/XSLT). This will let data flow more intelligently, speed development, ease revision, and cure measles. Curl, as a "one internet language," sounds like the exact opposite. Expect fierce ideological and practical opposition if it makes any real strides.

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I thought this had been discussed before. I believe it is Curl that provides a free browser plugin (Surge) but charges the site for every byte of Curl code the user downloads - see pricing:
www.curl.com/html/products/pricing.jsp?c1=46

It looks to be $0.0005 per kilobyte. They are a bit cagey about the minimum monthly fee too intial reports said it was $1000/month but they aren't specific (actually it is all explained in the last link).

and some articles:
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991122
www.cosmiverse.com/tech08080102.html
www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep01/innovation2.asp

but see:
www.curlbreaker.com/vol_1_issue_1/features/cover/thecostofcurl.php

Oh well we'll see (I suspect the charging business will kill it but only time will tell).

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Thanks for that last link Emperor.

I was checking out the CURL site and got scared away from even trying it because of the vague pricing outlines. I have enough to pay for my little hosting without paying for the language I code in. Now that I've read the article from that link, I may download it to play around with.

Thanks for the heads up on this one Bugs!

-Butcher-

seems like sh*t to me... a scam too

butcher: The charges are pretty low or nonexistent for everyone but medium to large business but I can see that as only the first part of their rolling out of a charging structure. I wonder what would happen in a few years time when everyone is using Curl and the nice technological orientated people have been ousted from the board and replaced by accountants who are only interested in the bottom line (no offence to anyone accounts here!!) and they start jacking up the charges. OK a nightmare scenario but once people are used to it then it would be tricky going back to the way we do it today.

I think the best bet is still to promote the upgrading of browsers and the writing of good quality crossbrowser code which is what is being done anyway. I can't see that there is a problem that needs fixing so I don't see the need for this.

Emps


You're my wife now Dave