Re: [9fans] Understanding /dev/draw

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

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Joseph, others, have you thought about Dis-to-wasm JIT?  I recall
Charles/Vita Nuova doing a browser plugin a few years ago, but things could
be a lot simpler now. HTML5 also has storage api's; a lot of local
resources can be available via 9p/sytx (devdraw, fs, cons)


On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:55 PM Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm greedily watching this space... if you need testers, please let me
> know. I have an interest in how/if this could be applied to Inferno was
> well.
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:05 PM Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I managed to get it running after all of these years. In case anyone
>> tries it again here's a few things that I had to do to get it to work on
>> the latest 9front.
>>
>> * Copy the latin1.h header file from the bell labs distribution and copy
>> it into /sys/src/9/port
>> * Run ip/httpd/httpd -w /sys/web/9wd (this is where the installation
>> copies the web app)
>> * Patch /usr/web/9wd/js/draw/data.js by commenting out the "delete
>> conn.imgs[id];" line
>>     * Future draw commands come in referring to the old image for some
>> reason and the server doesn't handle it well
>>
>> Yes, when I coerce the websocket tool to launch rio instead of acme
>> there's some oddness when I launch new graphical apps within rio from the
>> windows, such as acme. They tend to think that they should occupy the
>> entire screen. Also, be patient because it is quite slow for now.
>>
>> Does anyone know if David is still active in this space?
>>
>> Erik, where can I learn more about the layers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:08 PM erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> this implementation is enough to run acme,but not a full p9 terminal.
>>> you'll need layers for that.
>>>
>>

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