From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:55:34 +0100 From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5b12100-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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.