What is Downy WebFront?
A. Basically, I had the idea that any information souce should be easily available in any desired format. That’s what Downy WebFront attempts to achieve. It consists of dirloaders and viewers that are glued together by the Downy core. Dirloaders are what load up the information from some data source on the website, and they are very easy to add for any type of data source. For example, the Files section of my site uses the filesystem dirloader, the message boards use the phpBB dirloader, my weblog uses the custom-made Nano See, Nano Do dirloader, and so forth. Then, the information is sorted into a standard format and delivered to the viewer. The viewer is what outputs the document the user sees. My Files section uses the custom-made Nanobox viewer, and the RSS 1, RSS 2, and Atom 0.3 viewers are used throughout my website for the newsfeeds. The process isn’t quite as simple as that, but that’s the gist of it. I started developing Downy WebFront around the middle of 2004 and planned to
