From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: errno To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:02:08 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ARCH; KDE/4.6.3; i686; ; ) References: <201105171658.09729.errno@cox.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105171802.08507.errno@cox.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5800740-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hey David, thanks for responding. The sci-fi you write below is exactly the sort of fiction I'd find very interesting in "9 space", and corresponds rather closely to what I premised in a past thread[1]. So, I believe we're speaking the same language; but the picture you've painted seems out-of-band to the drawterm-in-browser idea presented by the OP; for instance: > Instead of a "traditional web server platform" for web applications > this could be an alternative deployment target. > If we're talking in terms of alternative deployment targets, then we're talking about a controlled environment where we have control over the installed software and hardware; but the drawterm-in-javascript idea is intended for pre-deployed, 3rd-party accessibility to plan 9. > Use a grid of Plan 9 machines with a "native" interface in JavaScript. > and: > The one that doesn't look like a Plan 9 application, but instead looks > like a useful application? > The drawterm-in-javascript-on-web-browser idea doesn't actually provide a general-consumer-friendly interface to plan 9 - it just amounts to window into the currently-existing plan 9 ui... we're still talking text + libdraw, libpanel, libcontrol, libframe, etc.. I agree that an html + css + javascript ui on Plan 9 would be a good and familiar way to get native Plan 9 applications into the hands of general users; but this drawterm-in-javascript idea does not facilitate the goal of a more "accessible/familiar" WIMP environment for a general consumer market; though it would be a useful tool once we finally did have a "native web" within plan 9 itself, because then 'we' _could_ make good on erik's: > one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 > users in plan 9. ... in a way that would actually be appealing to non-plan 9 users. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/9fans@9fans.net/msg19990.html