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

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

other's have done what you're suggesting:

http://code.google.com/p/styxbrowser/

also drawterm port to iphone was one of last year's successful gsoc projects.

that's not the point though; the point is to have something that runs
natively in the browser.  if chrome can run angry birds, why not
drawterm!

-Skip

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM, a z <rhoyerboat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ugh, I have to comment because to my noobness this sounds like an easy
> project, and an easy project to over-think. Teach a java app how to draw
> boxes like rio, and plug it in. Right?
>
> I would love to use Rio on a touchscreen, unfortunately I need to eat. So if
> I get that eating thing figured out Ill download Android SDK and make it
> start reading data from what rio listens to and attaching markup to it.
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > What the hell? They're not saying, "Screw running on hardware, let's
>> > just boot the whole system in Javascript under a browser", 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.
>> >
>> > As fgb would say, relax. No "Bell Labs people" have even commented on
>> > this thread, and if anybody wants to implement this, it's their own
>> > damn business. Writing a drawterm replacement in Javascript is not
>> > going to "downgrade" Plan 9. In fact, it would be rather useful--now
>> > when you're away from home, you can use somebody else's computer to
>> > connect to your CPU server and read your mail, for example.
>>
>> relax, man.  i understand peter's perspective.  and i don't think
>> it's unreasonable.  just think about how dbus has downgraded linux.
>>
>> 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
>>
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