I'm more interested in doing a Squeak plugin for v8:) because we could potentially then make Scamper not suck. 

If you're thinking along the lines of Squeak + JavaScript, it's worth (if you haven't already) checking out the Lively Kernel, Clamato, and OMeta/JS. I know this isn't at all what you're asking, but it's good food for thought. 



On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:43 AM, "Rob Withers" <reefedjib at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have an idea for a large scale project.   Hopefully some of you will find it interesting and give me a hand as I don't really know yet what I am doing.  Please speak up with advice, pointers, links and opinions.
> 
> Here is my idea...develop a Squeak browser plugin for the various browser/os combinations which will emit and communicate with JavaScript which will run in the browser.
> 
> JavaScript runs in most browsers as a client-side scripting language.  It has reasonable UI widgetry for a client.  GWT is a really powerful framework/toolkit, which integrates a JavaScript front-end with a Java back-end.   In the process of development with GWT, you use Java classes and your own subclasses to develop the front-end.  You can code, test, inspect and debug in Eclipse (using a browser plugin from GWT for development mode testing in the browser).  When ready, you compile all the client code into JavaScript for performance.
> 
> I think it is possible to stream JavaScript to a running JavaScript page (page/instance/vm?) dynamically.
> 
> I think the place to start is to revive the browser plugin build for squeak. Next would be to serve up some initial JavaScript to prototype the concept. Next would come a thorough development of Client classes in Squeak to represent and emit JavaScript.  Not sure what that entails exactly.
> 
> Does anyone have any interest in such a project?
> 
> Best,
> Rob 
>