Publisher's Synopsis
The Curl Content Language, and the accompanying Surge Lab IDE represent one possible look at the future of web content. A fully object-oriented language, Curl takes the best features of HTML, Javascript, DHTML and Java and combines them into a cross-browser, cross-platform technology that's easy to learn and has some serious power behind it. The result of six year's development, Curl is the first language designed specifically to encompass all the problems of building a web application on the client-side and cut away the World Wide Wait we encounter everyday.;As well as providing a tutorial to the Curl language itself, this book also provides an introduction to its graphics and multimedia capabilities and should give developers everything they need to know to start applying Curl technology in real world situations.;This book explains what Curl is and how the web has evolved to need it and provides an introduction to the main features of the Curl content language. It covers Surge Lab IDE for beta 5 and version 1.0; Curl as a replacement for HTML and CSS; Curl as a replacement for other script languages and the DOM; dynamic page layout and generation of 2-/3-D graphics on the fly; Multimedia support in Curl; and XML and the Future beyond v1.0.;This book is for existing web developers, preferably with some knowledge of an object oriented language, who want an overview of the Curl content language and short, sharp information on how to develop Curl applications. This book was written on both the beta 5 and pre-RTM versions of the Surge Lab IDE.
