Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 6 08:05:00 UTC 2002


Hi Alan

I read the pdf and this is impressive. Simply impressive continue to 
dream with us.

Stef



On mercredi, novembre 6, 2002, at 05:11  am, Alan Kay wrote:

> 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
>
> -------
>
> 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
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>
>
>
> -- 
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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