On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:53:03PM +0100, Janko Miv??ek wrote:
> Dne 01. 11. 2012 21:52, pi??e David T. Lewis:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 08:36:35PM +0100, Janko Miv??ek wrote:
> 
> >> I think it can be safely claimed that Aida/Web is a first Smalltalk web
> >> framework, even more, one of the first frameworks at all to integrate
> >> HTML5 WebSockets for so called realtime web apps. Realtime in sense that
> >> values on the page are updated immediately when value changes on the
> >> server, without needing to manually reload a page.
> 
> > I'm afraid that I have not been keeping up with web application development,
> > but this sounds really interesting. I have worked with automotive manufacturing
> > for many years, and being able to do real time displays like you describe
> > here could be a real game changer.
> 
> I actually need realtime web app support for something similar: to
> notify about some discrepancies on gas pipeline like some flowmeter
> overloaded, malfunction of some equipment, some other urgent situation
> etc. Those notifications will be shown on otherwise normal web app which
> is open all the time at the user desktops, because it is used daily for
> other tasks.

Yes, that's the idea exactly. I think I need to educate myself about Aida :)


> See also a similar GSoC project by Rustem Khubbatov:
> 
>   HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with Amber
>   http://gsoc2012.esug.org/projects/mmi-amber
>   https://dl.dropbox.com/u/792245/GSoC-HMI_with_Amber.mp4
> 

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for these links also.

Dave