On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Terry Brown <terrynbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can buy a new computer, connect it to the internet, and go to: > > https://kaleguy.github.io/leovue/#/t/1 > > and I'm using Leo on the web... except it's read only. No, you are just accessing a web page. > I think any > > read / write browser interface for Leo must provide the same zero > install access. Jupyter notebooks can be accessed this way too. > Yes, some notebooks can be accessed via web pages. But they are probably read only. Which reminds me. I wonder whether we could use the jupyter kernel architecture to do the inter-process communication. So sure, for development and for general use if the browser interface > replaces the Qt interface you'd do something like: > > python launchLeo.py --gui=html > firefox http://127.0.0.1:8730/ > > and it would all be local / desktop > . > Yes, that's the idea. > Key point is that http://127.0.0.1:8730/ could be > http://my.server.com/leo/ or maybe http://leohost.com/tbrown/ ;-) > without any additional work (hosting setup aside). And while I would > think Electron apps. could work that way, I don't see it in an > extremely superficial skimming of the interwebs. > Hmm. That's a worthy goal, but it seems to be a *separate *worthy goal. Seems to me that Electron is focused on making local desktop apps. > using a javascript / browser stack, which isn't part of the challenge > of "browser Leo", in my opinion. > Ok. It's good to distinguish "browser Leo" and "desktop Leo with browser-based rendering. > If the goal is being able to use cool web/html visualizations in Leo > on the desktop, they can just be embedded in QWebEngineView, problem > solved. > I don't think so. Qt rendering is feeble and slow. To me the goal is Leo being anywhere there's a web browser :) > We may be able to get this as part of the package. However, it probably carries significant security risks. See this discussion about electron security <https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security>. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
