From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <867ebc36addb575545f253fda3ca2026@coraid.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 03:40:56 -0600 Message-ID: From: a z To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd7620673a35004a389afd0 Subject: Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5b741ce-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd7620673a35004a389afd0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So any more thoughts on whether or not this would be useful? I have to revise: that I did point to a java sdk and really should have constrained my contents to something like jquery api instead. So- why? (why build a website of drawterm) (I think) I like plan9 as a potential network controller. Not sure if I hav= e the right idea or not. It is 'experimental,' after all. Having a full blown web interface to acme.dump and the things it can do to read and respond to routers of all varieties seems like it could be kind of useful. But I could be misguided, uninformed and tired. And StyxBrowser seems to lack auth code of any kind, and doesn't connect, o= r make any useful complaints that I can find right now. Oh it connects to the ip/port that it ships with, and is a file browser not a drawterm port, but that was in the docs. Yeah I would much rather run from (from within, or away from) an ajax app anyway. much happyness all, hroyerboat misguided, uninformed and tired. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:15 AM, dorin bumbu wrote: > it seems somebody already done a js virtual machine :) > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Brows= er > > Dorin > > > > on the other hand, i think a js virtual machine (mips would be nicer > > than x86) might be interesting. drawterm has always been a clever > > hack. it would be nice to have emulated environment that's more > > portable than 9vx and not tied to 32-bit x86. > > > > one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 users > > in plan 9. clearly they will have a browser. > > > > not that i'm signing up or anything. :-) > > > > - erik > > > > > > --=20 =E2=8E=BC=E2=8E=BA=E2=8E=BA=E2=94=9C@=E2=94=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=94=9C=E2=94=9C= =E2=89=A4-=E2=90=8D=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=8A=E2=96=92=E2=90=8D:/=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA= =E2=94=94=E2=90=8A/=E2=8E=BC=E2=90=A4=E2=8E=BA# --000e0cd7620673a35004a389afd0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So any more thoughts on whether or not this would be useful?

I have = to revise: that I did point to a java sdk and really should have constraine= d my contents to something like jquery api instead.

So- why? (why bu= ild a website of drawterm)
(I think) I like plan9 as a potential network controller. Not sure if I hav= e the right idea or not. It is 'experimental,' after all. Having a = full blown web interface to acme.dump and the things it can do to read and = respond to routers of all varieties seems like it could be kind of useful. = But I could be misguided, uninformed and tired.

And StyxBrowser seems to lack auth code of any kind, and doesn't co= nnect, or make any useful complaints that I can find right now. Oh it conne= cts to the ip/port that it ships with, and is a file browser not a drawterm= port, but that was in the docs. Yeah I would much rather run from (from wi= thin, or away from) an ajax app anyway.

much happyness all,
hroyerboat
misguided, uninformed and tired. <= br>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:15 AM, dorin bumbu = <bumbudorin@gm= ail.com> wrote:
it seems somebody already done a js virtual= machine :)

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/024= 2244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browser

Dorin


> on the other hand, i think a js virtual machine (mips would be nicer > than x86) might be interesting. =C2=A0drawterm has always been a cleve= r
> hack. =C2=A0it would be nice to have emulated environment that's m= ore
> portable than 9vx and not tied to 32-bit x86.
>
> one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 users
> in plan 9. =C2=A0clearly they will have a browser.
>
> not that i'm signing up or anything. =C2=A0:-)
>
> - erik
>
>




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