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[luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com>, 2017-03-21 22:44]
> A friend and I are working on a webpage builder. As part of
> our design process I wrote up a draft in postscript, knowing
> that I could knock one out fairly quickly.
> 
> So this is what I came up with, for the curious or the bored.
> As I described the behavior to my friend, he replied "Oh, so
> it's object-oriented postscript; that's frightening."
> 
> It's meant to describe a control panel that will be "compiled"
> into html/js.

Nice.

[...]
> /wireless <<
>               /Type /controls cvx
>               /afterburner { (Afterburner) [(Auto)(Enable)(Disable)] select }
>               /ap_isolation { (AP Isolation) check }
>               /authentication { (Authentication) [(Auto)(Shared Key)] select }
>           >> def  
[...]
> /controls {
>     (      <table>)=
>     {
>         1 index /Type eq {
>             pop pop
>         }{
>             exec
>         } ifelse
>     } forall
>     (      </table>)=
> } def
[...]
>       <table>
>         <tr>
>           <td>Afterburner</td>
>           <td>
>             Auto <input type=radio name=afterburner value=0>
>             Enable <input type=radio name=afterburner value=1>
>             Disable <input type=radio name=afterburner value=2>
>           </td>
>         </tr>
>         <tr>
>           <td>Authentication</td>
>           <td>
>             Auto <input type=radio name=authentication value=0>
>             Shared Key <input type=radio name=authentication value=1>
>           </td>
>         </tr>
>       </table>

How did you ensure the order? (?)

Btw, isn't it a shame Adobe made characters < / > syntax? An opportunity for a
real nice DSL for XML/HTML was lost...
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