{"id":25,"date":"2007-01-05T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/introducing-webscope-and-moya\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T14:52:00","slug":"introducing_webscope_and_moya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/introducing_webscope_and_moya\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Webscope and Moya"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don't know if anybody noticed but my homepage and Twisted Lemon<\/a>'s homepage have been down over the new year period. We're back up and running now because Moose Computer Services have moved our hosting from the old virtual machine to a new, real server. Hopefully now we've got rid of our noisy neighbours we won't have the problem again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

While tola.me.uk<\/a> has been down I've been busy working on hippygeek.co.uk<\/a>. Hippygeek now has subversion repositories and trac projects working (I've been playing with the Subclipse<\/a> plugin for Eclipse. It's a bit clunky but a very useful feature.) <\/p>\n

In particular I've started two new projects, webscope<\/a> and moya<\/a>. They are two projects I've been planning for a couple of years, but I've decided to make the thought process a bit more open in the hope that I'll make some progress towards implementing them. There's no code yet.<\/p>\n

Webscope<\/a><\/h3>\n

“Webscope is a unified interface for managing your information with multiple modes of interaction. It is a web resource manager – a hybrid web browser, web server, media player and window manager replacement.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I'm hoping to write the front end using XUL<\/a>, running on XULRunner<\/a>, but the back end will include lots of other bits including an HTTP server.<\/p>\n

You can click the link above for more information, or see the draft specification<\/a> and UI mockups<\/a> (which I created in Inkscape).<\/p>\n

Webscope is an implementation of design concepts from my web site, including:<\/p>\n