Version 0 of StarSite

Name for the concept of placing the contents of a whole website into a single file and serving it directly from there. By Neil Madden.

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He, Neil, already uses something near to this for his personal website, based on Metakit and tDOM. I.e. he stores XML and converts that to HTML. This is currently done offline. The moment this is changed to online generation the StarSite is complete.

Related to this is a notion by BrowseX. This browser allows the retrieval of a website and its storage into a zip-archive. This is usually meant for easy transfer of a website, but also allow display of the archive via BrowseX, without unpacking it (IIRC AK).

Obvious extensions of the concept.

A local mode, i.e. running the Starkit containing the StarSite, or providing access to it, in a non-web environment pops up a Tk based display which allows browsing the site without web-browser.
An extension of such a local mode would be to enable the editing of pages in the site.
Allow the starkit to run not only as cgi-type application, but as its own web server.

Depending on the exact nature of how web pages are stored in the StarSite this can have significant overlap with the code base providing the Tcl'ers Wiki. Especially as some discussed extensions to it would allow the storage of not only Wiki markup, but other types of data as well, like images, HTML, or XML. The similarity should be clear by now.

Category Internet