Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )

Bruce ONeel beoneel at bluewin.ch
Wed Nov 6 13:51:09 UTC 2002


Very!

cheers

bruce

Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Hi Alan
> 
> I read the pdf and this is impressive. Simply impressive continue to 
> dream with us.
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> 
> On mercredi, novembre 6, 2002, at 05:11  am, Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> > That's right Joshua --
> >
> > This Croquet is still "prerelease" and is on the website currently for 
> > the convenience of the developers. It will be a few more months before 
> > it will be officially released as an opensource resource.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > -------
> >
> > At 9:29 PM -0500 11/5/02, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> >> The thing is, if Yoshiki hadn't let the cat out of the bag (thanks,
> >> Yoshiki), no one would have known about the site except on a
> >> need-to-know basis.  Since there was no "[ANN] Croquet!!!"
> >> message, I don't think that we should complain too loudly about
> >> deficiencies in a private development webpage.
> >> Joshua
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Gary Fisher wrote:
> >>>  I took your reply as humor, but in case I was mistaken, I believe 
> >>> the "they"
> >>>  Daniel referred to is "JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH," not the unflashed 
> >>> folks.
> >>>
> >>>  Given the scope and vision of Croquet I'm not sure advanced web 
> >>> features are
> >>>  out of place, though normal practice is to include a "plain 
> >>> vanilla" index
> >>>  page for those who, by choice or need, use browsers of limited 
> >>> capacity.
> >>>  Reading the .pdf and website info it seems unlikely, though, that 
> >>> Croquet
> >>>  will appeal to, or even function for, those who cannot or will not 
> >>> use
> >>>  graphically rich user interfaces.
> >>>
> >>>  Gary Fisher
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>>  From: "Michael Rueger" <m.rueger at acm.org>
> >>>  To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >>>  Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 6:18 PM
> >>>  Subject: Re: Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Daniel Joyce wrote:
> >>>  >
> >>>  > > Not all of us folks have JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH, and they should 
> >>> NOT be
> >>>  > > required to navigate a website.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > You are not required to navigate a website.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Michael
> >>>  >
> >>>  >
> >>>
> >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> >
> Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
>   "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>   different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
>   might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes



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