Fed up with the web

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Fri Jun 2 00:09:18 UTC 2006


Keith Hodges wrote:
> Dear Brad,
>
> I think my "fed up with the web" goal would be to take everything that
> you see in a firefox browser and simply be able to recreate it in
> squeak, only (dreaming slightly) the plug in would be a "tea-spoon"
> (lol) dynamically syncing with anything it needs to reify live objects
> from the "serving-spoon" which have been placed by direct manipulation
> and wysiwyg editing. No markup no cookies and no more web, I think we
> might manage better fonts too.

Why can't you use seaside if you want a browser with live syncing (have
you seen Diego's Asteroids?
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/seaside/2006-May/007570.html
a video of it:
http://astares.blogspot.com/2006/05/comet-implementation-for-seaside-web.html

>
> Can anyone tell me how much of the plugin api is supported by the squeak
> plug in? I know that it can make server requests and file requests via
> the host browser, and the documentation that I found says that streaming
> is not supported data is passed en-block. Is integration with javascript
> possible?

Where did you find the documentation?
I wonder why streaming is not possible. Do you know if the npsqueak

source is available?

>
> My ultimate personal goal is to recreate www.tiddlywiki.com which might
> explain why I am currently tinkering with Pier. This may seem
> hypocritical of me, but Pier is one of the first wiki's that is not
> entirely web bound because of magritte.

that seems very doable with Pier as a starting point.





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