[squeak-dev] Morphic on HTML+CSS

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Tue Jun 14 17:00:44 UTC 2011


At Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:27:30 -0700,
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> Well, it would be great to see more of the good ideas in Squeak and its ancestors getting wider adoption. Seeing Morphic on the web is cool, but that's somewhat unrelated to Squeak.
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> Having style sheets in Squeak's Morphic would be cool too. The Sophie developers used style sheets for their Tweak UI. But I don't think HTML would be a good choice for Squeak's Morphic. Implementing a fully compliant HTML renderer is Hard, and I don't see the added complexity being worth it.
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> What would be nice though is pursuing the idea of alternative UI kits in Squeak - being able to unload and switch between Full Morphic / SimpleMorphic / Native / HTML interfaces, all backed by ToolBuilder seems very useful. For the HTML interface you could e.g. just add a WebKit plugin.

  Sounds good.

  BTW, you can get the references to JS objects from Google Native
Client and send messages to them.  We can write a bridge to them, and
then we should be able to mix the HTML rendered objects and
Squeak-rendered objects in Chrome.

-- Yoshiki





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