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Up to now, all scripts we have discussed were fairly academic. They are nice to get solid PicoLisp skills, and to get the basics right. Nevertheless, in order to create something practical we need some things more in our toolbox. This series will fil...
Welcome back to the Web Application tutorial. Today we will discuss how the PicoLisp interpreter actually transforms a script to something the browser can display. In order to understand that, we will need some basic knowledge about the HTTP protocol...
Now that we know how to create a HTTP-response out of a PicoLisp script, let's set up a server and try it out. What actually is a server? When speaking of servers, many people think of large, specialized computers that are stored somewhere under the...
In the last post, we started the server and hosted a minimal "Hello World"-script. The resulting HTML source consisted of a single <body> tag. Today we will show how to add further tags. HTML tags functions HTML tags are used to structure the page. ...
In the last post, we expanded our "Hello World" example by some tags. However, the page still looks really boring. We need to add some styles. CSS CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The main idea is that you can define the layout independently f...
Today we will show how to create a simple HTML form in PicoLisp. User Interaction in HTML If a website purely works in HTML, the user interface can only be realized using <form> and <input> elements. The <form> tag accepts several attributes, of whi...
