[squeak-dev] Winds of change

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 16:16:45 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:16:41AM -0700, Lawson English wrote:
> Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:00:12PM -0700, Lawson English wrote:
> >   
> >> Lawson English wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Mark Fulmer just gave me one of those Homer Simpson DOH!!! moments:
> >>>
> >>> The Second LIfe interface already has a webbrowser that you can open 
> >>> inside Second LIfe. Serve a localhost webpage from Squeak and provide 
> >>> some user interface goodness in it, and you have a more or less full 
> >>> GUI interface to Squeak from within Second Life.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The same pattern would work with any application that can handle 
> >>> localhost webpages. No need to define some complicated user interface 
> >>> with Squeak. All you need is the webpage and some way of passing raw 
> >>> commands/data to/from your target app.
> >>>       
> >> Matthew Fulmer (Doh!)....
> >>     
> >
> > Haha. I always get called Mark when someone can't remember my
> > name
> >
> >   
> A Homer Simpson moment leading to a senior moment. <sigh>
> 
> Anyway, so after finding my javascript book and playing around with 
> sample scripts online, it seems trivial to implement a simplified
> Smalltalk browser interface on a webpage. Of course, if someone already 
> has a sample of this (javascript only--needs to run inside SL
> for immersion effect), feel free to point it out.

Lively Kernel uses javascript and svg to recreate Morphic in a
web browser, entirely client side:

http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/

-- 
Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/



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