Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, errno <errno@cox.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:40:50 PM Jacob Todd wrote:
> > Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing
> > something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less
> > hard.
> >
>
> Correct; but also somewhat ancillary to the general areas
> of concern:
>
> > 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?
>

Instead of a "traditional web server platform" for web applications this
could be an alternative deployment target.

Use a grid of Plan 9 machines with a "native" interface in JavaScript.

JavaScript front end to a distributed Go application on Plan 9 sounds like a
potentially useful medium to work in.


>
> > Ok, who slipped me the Cr@zy Pills? Just a couple weeks ago,
> > javascript and web technologies were THE DEVIL INCARNATE...
>
> > 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.
>

The one that doesn't look like a Plan 9 application, but instead looks like
a useful application?

I don't think Linux was appealing to very many people before it was obvious
one could host a cheap http server on it either.


>
> > The web is the key.
>
>
That's part of it likely, but I think we have to be able to imagine how Plan
9 makes something easier for someone with a web browser.  Technology in
search of a use is almost always the wrong way to go, but I think it did
work out in Linux's case.

Dave


> Cheers
>
>
>

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