Curl flashcard maker for Conning's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course

Did you recently acquire the 2nd Ed. of Halpern's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary ? The 2nd Ed. has the Unicode value for the kanji. In the example below that value is 9801.

Here is a snap of the Curl applet that I use on my desktop with the Unicode values found in Andrew Scott Conning's 2013 Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course : ( note the 4 markup macros named EmFontSize, CardFontSize, FrontSide and KJ )

Curl for creative e-books

With Facebook absorbing Push Pop Press and more interest in Curl from the server-side, should we not be taking Curl seriously as a format for creative e-books?

To get an idea, look at what TiddlySpot.com and TiddlySpace.com have been able to do for TiddlyWiki using Python and PHP.

Curl macros are natural for templates for page layout - and there is all the experience gained from the recent addition of stylesheets to Curl pages - and a new style-designer is coming.

What is missing is e-books that are sync'd to WBT as "smart textbooks" to complement web-based training (and not the fat binder of photocopies, pul-lease!

Curl open-source Sonntag GUI framework

 
Over at communities.curl.com I have a post on the Curl open-source Sonntag framework at sourceforge.net .

Why the name?  Well, it tag's components with the optional name property ... and sonner seems to ring a bell ... [ to get off a bus is an event.]  O-kay, we'll stop that punning for now ...

What is needed is a much more elaborated demo than that currently available.  I will try to find time to work on one. Two small things need doing for the existing demo: move it up to Curl 7.0 from 6.0 and show that Sonntag ties-in seemlessly to Curl automated testing for GUI Visual components.

From where I stand, this little framework is important for what it demonstrates about the strengths of Curl in keeping the complexity of Events for GUI widgets under wraps.

Sonntag achieves that through live-code doc's, Curl macros, mixin's, multiple inheritance and parameterized classes and effective packaging.