Squeak Web applications

Robert Withers withers at vnet.net
Wed Apr 12 07:47:30 UTC 2000


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Robert Withers wrote:
> 
> > Aaahhhhh!!    My brain hurts.   This is totally COOL!   I am totally
> > blown away, yet again, by Squeak!  8-)   Thanks, Bert!
> >
> > A few problems that I noticed (not being qualified to decide if they
> > are really problems of course) When the image first starts, it asks me
> > if I want to create a cache file.  I say yes and it gives me a
> > notifier: fileInObjectAndCode MNU semt from
> > SystemDictionary>>readDocumentFile.
> 
> This is currently not working ... The image tries to read the .sts file
> that Netscape downloaded (the document file). But Netscape placed that
> file in it's own cache directory, and Squeak is not allowed to read from
> there ... which means Squeak's File Sandbox works :-)

Ok, so you are saying that Squeak runs in its own process here and
doesn't have access to anything above ~/.netscape/squeak, however the
plugin has access to Netscape et al and can pipe that doc over.   That's
pretty neat.  Will squeak continue to run after you have left the
squeaklet page? 

> In the not-too-far-away future the plugin will communicate with the VM via
> pipes, so this will work again.
> 
> > Morphic is missing!  :-(
> 
> It's just a shrinked 2.7 image, to reduce downloading time. You can use
> any image file - just put it in .netscape/squeak/ and name it
> SqueakPlugin.image.

Ouch!  ;-)
 
> > As is a lot of other stuff, but there are menu items referencing them.
> > Has anyone thought about decouping the menu items from the
> > construction of the menu itself?  It seems that we could several
> > PoolDictionaries which would allow modules to add menuItems to various
> > system menus.
> 
> That would be a great enhancement to the shrinking process.

Global Pools may not be the best place for this; would the
SystemDictionary be a better place or is there another 'root' object
that would be more appropriate for this information?

-Rob
 
>   -Bert-

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