> I've toyed with the idea of a webtop interface to Inferno (that I
> suppose could easily have a similar implementation on Plan 9):
>
>
> http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/2008/04/service-oriented-file-systems.html
>
> I'm sure the Plan B/Octopus guys have some thoughts here as well.
we're slowly working toward that for rangboom. we use Yahoo's YUI js
libraries. they encapsulate many useful js widgets like rich text
editor, menus, etc.. for rangboom, once the user is logged in from
the web interface it's basically javascript and xml (because all
browser/js can grok xml). the javascript in the namespace page
includes the full "api".
this is what is needed (and worked on):
cgifs: mostly done thanks to fgb. i'll put it up soon.
rit: already available thanks to kenji
filterfs: sythesize a filesystem from other fs and rc filters. could use
exportfs as a start. design in mind, no code yet. at one
point ehg mentioned such a thing at Labs.
sessionfs: keep continuity of http session for factotum.
design in mind, no code yet.
httpd: modifications similar to pegasus to start httpd for an authenticated
user with that user's credentials. not done.
with filterfs in place one can generate bits of js code along with
html for the type of files being accessed, or views being looked
at; but would still require a good bit more js code.
