-------------------------------------------------- From: "C. David Shaffer" cdshaffer@acm.org Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:23 AM To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] stream>>#nextPutAll:changed toreturncollectioninsteadofthe stream?
That's awesome to hear! What are you doing with it? Squeak to squeak or squeak to the world? What kind of application? Please tell me about it!
We talk to Google Docs via the various APIs (DocumentsList, Spreadsheets and a couple others) over https. I believe that my AmazonAWS code also uses https. For a while we were also talking to an IBM Jazz server over SSL but that project was put on the back burner. I have a custom
OH! It seems your response got cutoff... Sounds exciting, what you have written. Which image? Croquet, Pharo?
I don't know the state of the Squeak web browser. It is a real shame that someone didn't pick up alternative work that was done. I was thinking a JavaScript interpreter would be cool to have and then why not turn Squeak into a browser, a la Chrome.
:-) I think there is a nearly complete Javascript interpreter for Smalltalk somewhere. Still, a decent web browser is hard to do. I've seen several attempts in various Smalltalks and most are slow and render poorly (under Linux anyway).
Yeah, doing a web browser would be hard.
Cheers, Rob