Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Wed Nov 6 04:11:55 UTC 2002


That's right Joshua --

This Croquet is still "prerelease" and is on the website currently 
for the convenience of the developers. It will be a few more months 
before it will be officially released as an opensource resource.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 9:29 PM -0500 11/5/02, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
>The thing is, if Yoshiki hadn't let the cat out of the bag (thanks,
>Yoshiki), no one would have known about the site except on a
>need-to-know basis.  Since there was no "[ANN] Croquet!!!"
>message, I don't think that we should complain too loudly about
>deficiencies in a private development webpage. 
>
>Joshua
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Gary Fisher wrote:
>>  I took your reply as humor, but in case I was mistaken, I believe the "they"
>>  Daniel referred to is "JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH," not the unflashed folks.
>>
>>  Given the scope and vision of Croquet I'm not sure advanced web features are
>>  out of place, though normal practice is to include a "plain vanilla" index
>>  page for those who, by choice or need, use browsers of limited capacity.
>>  Reading the .pdf and website info it seems unlikely, though, that Croquet
>>  will appeal to, or even function for, those who cannot or will not use
>>  graphically rich user interfaces.
>>
>>  Gary Fisher
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Michael Rueger" <m.rueger at acm.org>
>>  To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>  Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 6:18 PM
>>  Subject: Re: Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )
>>
>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Daniel Joyce wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > Not all of us folks have JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH, and they should NOT be
>>  > > required to navigate a website.
>>  >
>>  > You are not required to navigate a website.
>>  >
>>  > Michael
>>  >
>>  >
>>


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