Squeak for everyday use??

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Wed Mar 27 16:22:42 UTC 2002


Jon --

This would be really great! Thanks!

Cheers,
Alan

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At 7:28 PM -0500 3/26/02, Jon Hylands wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:57:47 -0600 (CST), Aaron J Reichow
><reic0024 at d.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>>  One promising lead is Jon Hyland's MediaView-
>>  http://www.huv.com/smalltalk/browser.html
>>
>>  As time goes by, this lead seems less promising, however.  He's not had
>>  the time to tidy and fileOut the code thus far, and my attempts to contact
>>  him to see if some other arragement could be reached (a third-party doing
>>  the code clean-up, or distributing the old image sans clean-up), but I've
>>  not recieved any responses.
>
>Andrew (and everyone else),
>
>I apologize for not getting back to you on this -- I looked back, and sure
>enough the email from you is in my inbox... My excuse is I just (after 5
>months with no work) got a new contract in Florida, and getting down here
>and getting set up has been a major hassle.
>
>Anyways, I did release my web browser quite a while ago -- just after
>Smalltalk Solutions last year, in fact. I heard not a peep from anyone
>about it, so I figured no-one was interested.
>
>I've just in a past couple months gotten emails from two people (one of
>them was yourself) about it. The reason it is not on my server anymore is
>the zip file was 12 MB, and I was exceeding my space quota, and something
>had to go, and since no-one seemed to care one way or the other, I just
>deleted it from the server.
>
>Unfortunately, given that the code was written in 1997, and Squeak has
>changed a small amount since then, it doesn't work very well. I started
>porting it to work in Morphic last year, but the new layout stuff didn't
>seem to work very well, and I just stopped working on it...
>
>If people are interested, I will make an effort in the next couple weeks to
>work on the code again, and get it into a state where at least you can file
>it into a 3.2 or 3.3 image to work on it...
>
>Later,
>Jon
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>    Jon Hylands      Jon at huv.com      http://www.huv.com/jon
>
>   Project: Micro Seeker (Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)
>            http://www.huv.com


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