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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