Am 18.11.2004 um 22:37 schrieb lex at cc.gatech.edu:

> "Jens Grubert" <jenosch at gmx.de> wrote:
>> I'm completly new to Sqeak and Smalltalk, though i have several years 
>> of
>> programming experience in java and php and am able to learn new 
>> programming
>> languages relative quickly.
>> I would like to know if in ANYWAY the following is realizable within 
>> Squeak:
>>
>> I want to build an webbased, multiuser interactive 3D-Room / 
>> 3D-Metapher
>> which can integrate external applications like mail-clients, browsers,
>> games.
>
> The Croquet project is working on letting you display X programs inside
> a shared 3D world.  I don't know how far along that is, but you might
> try there.

Yes, Croquet would definitely be the place to start. Integrating 
external programs is the challenging part, though. A recent Croquet 
update enabled VNC support so you could use that. For a quick prototype 
that should be enough.

- Bert -