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.
> What the hell? They're not saying, "Screw running on hardware, let'srelax, man. i understand peter's perspective. and i don't think
> 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.
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