[MUD-Dev] A new MUD-standard

[Jon Lambert]

Ben Chambers wrote:
> From: "Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt" <hhs at cbs.dtu.dk>
> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ben Chambers wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone think of any other kinds of information that the server
> > > might want to utilize?
> >
> > You might consider doing more advanced interfaces over the protocol.
> > Tags might set up forms, buttons, menus and other GUIs that can be
> > used for actions such as bulletin boards, shops, account managing
> > etc.
> 
> This is what I was shooting for.  The key is I have to make it easy
> and simple while at the same time implementing fancy features.  I was
> thinking about setting it up so that their are flags for things such
> as bulletin boards.  But in the absence of a client that has been set
> up to handle these, defaulting to part of the standard window.
> 
> I would love to have buttons and the such possible, but the problem is
> where to stop?  If I go too far, it is a new programming language in
> itself.  If I don't go far enough, no one will ever use it.

Hey there already is a "standard" and a client to support it.  It's
called Pueblo.  Yeah I know it's been abandoned and has commercial
license that discourages someone from picking it up and fixing it and
extending it.  It handles a subset of HTML, framing, forms, sounds,
graphics and VRML.

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