Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> If someone were feeling very macho ...

... and it probably wouldn't be larger than the kind
of stuff that many people are using for AJAX these days.

i'd quite like to see a 9p/styx client in javascript.
assuming one can do that kind of two way stateful communication,
you could presumably do a little cpu client too (exporting /dev/cons
only, and maybe access to some local browser state.)
cryptographic libraries in javascript, anyone?
of course, it would be totally disgusting, but might be quite useful.

on the subject of samterm and acme, it'd be really nice to
have an equivalent of samterm for acme (mouse interaction
can be really sluggish when using drawterm or equivalent).
lots of work though.

i seem to remember rob mentioning a year or so back that he was working on
something similar (maybe a new editor) and that there were
three, maybe four, primitives in the protocol. a challenge i never
did solve... it'd be nice to know what they were, and whether
it might ever come to anything.