From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: errno To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:49:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ARCH; KDE/4.6.3; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105171549.34288.errno@cox.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e53a78b0-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:31:32 AM John Floren wrote: > they want to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web > browser, because you can find a Javascript-supporting web browser > anywhere (except Plan 9) these days. > On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:00:15 AM Adrian Tritschler wrote: > Serve it over http and access your CPU server from anywhere > that's got a web browser. > Is it really all that often when a Plan 9 user is in the precarious situation of needing to access his plan9 system from some other person's/party's pc or laptop? Is this for when you glide into a coffee shop and forget your laptop or something? "Hey, Mr.... may I borrow your laptop's web browser for a sec... I really need to hack some code on my plan9 system." On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:04:02 PM Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > that's not the point though; the point is to have something > that runs natively in the browser. > On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:31:32 AM John Floren wrote: > Writing a drawterm replacement in Javascript is not > going to "downgrade" Plan 9. > Ok, who slipped me the Cr@zy Pills? Just a couple weeks ago, javascript and web technologies were THE DEVIL INCARNATE... but suddenly, here's something we can all get behind... javascript + html5 + browsers and other web standards are now OK[tm]? So.... it's cool to have "the 9" running 'native' in a browser (via javascript!)... but to have "the web" running 'native' in Plan 9... is stark full of controversy, fear, uncertainty and doubt? On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:18:45 AM erik quanstrom wrote: > one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 > users in plan 9. > I realize I'm being unimaginative, but I'm having a very difficult time conceiving what sort of plan 9 application could possibly be appealing to non-plan 9 users. On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:18:45 AM erik quanstrom wrote: > it would be nice to have emulated environment that's more > portable than 9vx and not tied to 32-bit x86. > Well now this at least actually makes some modicum of sense to me. The web is the key.