From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <867ebc36addb575545f253fda3ca2026@coraid.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:04:02 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e533b8a4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 project= s. 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 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 > 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. =C2=A0i understand peter's perspective. =C2=A0and i don't th= ink >> it's unreasonable. =C2=A0just 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. =C2=A0drawterm has always been a clever >> hack. =C2=A0it 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. =C2=A0clearly they will have a browser. >> >> not that i'm signing up or anything. =C2=A0:-) >> >> - erik >> > > > > -- > =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# >