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There is now a custom-built alpha of the Rebol3 alpha-100 but with GUI code for Windows.

After first running

do %r3-gui.r3

you can then try code snippets such as

·  view [
·     text "Example window."
·     button "Close" close
·   ]

·   view [
·     vpanel [
·       text "Show website"
·       button "Show" browse http://www.rebol.net
·     ]
·     vpanel [
·       text "Example window."
·       button "Close" close
·   ]]

But if you paste code into the REPL, that text must be unix-style with LF only and no CRLF until the code has been input.

What you will see when the examples run is that the widgets have a style or “skin” (the one I see is shaded-metallic or brushed-aluminum.)

Two essential links for the January 2011 upgrade of Rebol2:

Quick Tour

Changes

Rebol3 is still not out of alpha … but it will get there.  Tcl 8.6 is still not out of beta … UNICON is stil 11.7 … and Squeak 4.2 should appear soon.

The prior upgrade to Rebol 2.7.7 was one year earlier in January 2010.  I am testing the new CGI on my linux web server over at HostGator.

Looking at processes running under Windows, I see that when a Maxthon browser starts up and tries to process my bookmarks folders, its memory footprint blows through 90 MB. Meanwhile IE8 opens 3 processes, each near the 30 MB mark. But when I go to bookmark something for the first time in an IE8 session, then comes the big bite: only this time it is out of my workday as I wait for my bookmarks to load. At least with IE8 I can hop over into another session.

Online bookmark services do not yet seem to be the answer (and Maxthon eventually reports that I exceed their bookmarks limit) – at least not from the time I have put into Delicious and other such offering – even those revamped for Firefox.

So I will just have to try to do better with a Curl-based or a Rebol-based or an ICON-based browser (even Tcl/Tk may be in the running for this one). When I get a prototype ready, I’ll post a note. And hope that you bookmark it …