> On Oct 18, 2013, at 3:18 AM, Eric Reynolds <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That sounds great, I am just wondering though, that would require you to > redevelop a library of widgets to be able to set up a GUI, so why not use > HTML?
I actually do. I have a set of classes which model Keyboard, Mouse, Touchpad, Display, virtual Screen (a screen can span multiple displays) and the like. These either work in browser or proxy events to the server. I don't use the DOM as it would require synchronization between two display models, server side vs client. So the client doesn't get a scene graph, it merely gets a function which can render the scene. I then use a render pipeline to composite multiple scenes. I used to build video game engines and this is all pretty standard stuff minus the network and client and lag. > How do you do the code caching and hot fixing? Have you packaged your code > into a module on npm? No I literally send the function definitions as JSON blobs: [ "uuid", "arg1", ..., "argn", " return arg1 + 1"] The on message handler decodes the JSON and uses the UUID to update or create the cache entry. Function.prototype.constructor is applied to the slice of the remainder of the array. And the function gets added to the render pipeline. So it is full MVC, just the V is a render pipeline function, the C are the device abstraction layer which sends user messages to the views and models, and all of the models tend to reside server side. There might see to be more complexity than a typical web app, but the code is simpler and I get excellent frame rates on mobile. Hiding latency of both the input layer and the eventually consistent data store are the real tricky bits :). Dave -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
