Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed-devel Digest, Vol 131, Issue 8

[ismail adegbenga]

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>    1. Re: GNUmed in a webbrowser (Karsten Hilbert)
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>    3. Re: GNUmed in a webbrowser (Wolfgang Keller)
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> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:00:27 +0200
> From: Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden>
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> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Wolfgang 
Keller wrote:
> > Try Dillo with any "modern" WWW page and see for 
yourself.
> 
> I am using w3m daily with good success.
> 
> Karsten
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> > > For Linux we could build portable versions.
> > 
> > We already do: they are called VMs.
> 
> Beep.
> 
> VMs are *not* portable. They don't run without special 
software
> installed on the host system. And an ordinary user without 
"special"
> privileges can't install that software.
> 
> "Portable" software means that it can be used without 
installation (of
> any dependencies) by any user, without any special 
privileges.
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> BTW: This is the main reason why I still don't consider 
Linux as
> really "user-friendly". As long as there is a requirement for 
"package
> management" of any kind, as long as Linux applications 
aren't packaged
> as entirely self-contained application packages, Linux 
seriously lags
> behind what has been achieved in 1984 (almost 30 - in 
words: thirty! -
> years ago) by the MacOS or Atari's ST or Acorn's RiscOS a 
bit later.
> 
> Sincerely,
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> Wolfgang
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The link is a little short on the technical details of things.
Is there a webapp or native app that will capture data and 
then integrate with other applications? 
Is there an API for 3rd party applications to directly capture 
data from the device?
I assume Sebastian has more information regarding this.