Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
i was overly emotional, sorry. i also overlooked that the debate is about drawterm, a non-plan9 program. doubly sorry. still, to my taste, to much effort is devoted to things outside the system... however, i am not an MBA, maybe, it is all right. wishing a fantastic day, ++pac

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Charles Forsyth
i am not an MBA, maybe, it is all right it's always all right not to be an MBA

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
it's always all right not to be an MBA not here ;-)

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 05/18/2011 05:12 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for decades, but its message has never been more important

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread a z
So any more thoughts on whether or not this would be useful? I have to revise: that I did point to a java sdk and really should have constrained my contents to something like jquery api instead. So- why? (why build a website of drawterm) (I think) I like plan9 as a potential network controller.

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for decades, but its message has never been more important and, or useful for many. -- Rob Tannen yes!! BTW, I hate porting bloatware to clean, compact and efficient Plan 9. so do i, however, sometimes time (and,

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread blstuart
On 05/18/2011 05:12 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for decades, but its message has never been more

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread David Leimbach
Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2011, at 5:24 AM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 05/18/2011 05:12 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 05/18/2011 05:56 PM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 05/18/2011 05:12 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread erik quanstrom
How useful a research could be which is not backed by a business idea? Who will fund such projects, why and for how long? you mean a research project like unix or plan 9? - erik

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread comeauat9f...@gmail.com
On May 18, 2011, at 8:24 AM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: ...I'm confused. Why are we using business ideas to constrain what we are doing with a research system? Probably good point. But that said did not Lucent try to market Plan 9 beyond that at some point, or do I have that wrong?

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread blstuart
How useful a research could be which is not backed by a business idea? That's kind of the point I was getting at. Asking how research is useful isn't asking the most telling question. Research isn't always about utility; it's about intellectual contribution. Of course, it's great when

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread erik quanstrom
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browse then how about drawterm in javascript? Serve it over http and access your CPU server from anywhere that's got a web browser. russ implemented samterm in js. - erik

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
While not exactly the same, http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/ might be a good starting point for what would need to be done. There are actually several variations of this around (vnc in javascript). Not sure which would be the most simple as a starting point. -eric On Tue, May

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Russ Cox
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:38 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browse then how about drawterm in javascript?  Serve it over http and access your CPU server from anywhere that's got a web browser. russ

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I suggested a simple draw server in HTML5+websockets for a GSoC project this year. If anyone wants to work on it let me know. http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2011-ideas/index.html -Skip On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Adrian Tritschler a...@ajft.org wrote: If this can be done

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
Folks, i am very unhappy seeing this kind of discussions here (and, the wasted potential to do something more useful in my eyes, sorry, but IMHO)... it resembles me very much the times when Steve Jobbs compromised the ideas of the NeXTstep, first downgrading it to the OpenStep for Windoze users,

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread John Floren
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, i am very unhappy seeing this kind of discussions here (and, the wasted potential to do something more useful in my eyes, sorry, but IMHO)... it resembles me very much the times when Steve Jobbs compromised the

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Joseph Stewart
(kinda off-topic) Just saw this show up today... QEMU+Linux running under JavaScript on Chrome/FireFox. http://bellard.org/jslinux/ -joe

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread John Floren
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: (kinda off-topic) Just saw this show up today... QEMU+Linux running under JavaScript on Chrome/FireFox. http://bellard.org/jslinux/ -joe It's not really off-topic, since that's the site that the OP's slashdot

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Russ Cox
http://bellard.org/jslinux/ That's the link that started this thread. :-) I think the HTML Canvas and WebSockets would make drawterm a bit easier now than it was the last time I tried. The main problem now is that I don't believe it's possible to grab all three mouse button clicks reliably.

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Joseph Stewart
(embarrassed) and didn't read the first post. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: (kinda off-topic) Just saw this show up today... QEMU+Linux running under JavaScript on

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Jason Dreisbach
This article seems to have all the pieces for mouse button management. http://unixpapa.com/js/mouse.html - Jason On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.comwrote: (embarrassed) and didn't read the first post. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, John Floren

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i don't know what compromise you're talking about; anything that can implement and use 9P is a legitimate component to attach to Plan 9. browsers are the predominant way that users connect to the Net; websockets in html5 provide the ability to establish a full duplex tcp connection. why shouldn't

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread erik quanstrom
What the hell? They're not saying, Screw running on hardware, let's just boot the whole system in Javascript under a browser, they want to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web browser, because you can find a Javascript-supporting web browser anywhere (except Plan 9) these days.

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread a z
Ugh, I have to comment because to my noobness this sounds like an easy project, and an easy project to over-think. Teach a java app how to draw boxes like rio, and plug it in. Right? I would love to use Rio on a touchscreen, unfortunately I need to eat. So if I get that eating thing figured out

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
other's have done what you're suggesting: http://code.google.com/p/styxbrowser/ also drawterm port to iphone was one of last year's successful gsoc projects. that's not the point though; the point is to have something that runs natively in the browser. if chrome can run angry birds, why not

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread errno
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:31:32 AM John Floren wrote: they want to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web browser, because you can find a Javascript-supporting web browser anywhere (except Plan 9) these days. On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:00:15 AM Adrian Tritschler wrote: Serve it

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread David Leimbach
JavaScript is not java... Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2011, at 11:46 AM, a z rhoyerb...@gmail.com wrote: Ugh, I have to comment because to my noobness this sounds like an easy project, and an easy project to over-think. Teach a java app how to draw boxes like rio, and plug it in.

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread Jacob Todd
Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. On May 17, 2011 6:53 PM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:31:32 AM John Floren wrote: they want to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread errno
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:40:50 PM Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. Correct; but also somewhat ancillary to the general areas of concern: Is it really all that often when a Plan 9

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:40:50 PM Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. Correct; but also somewhat ancillary to the

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-17 Thread errno
Hey David, thanks for responding. The sci-fi you write below is exactly the sort of fiction I'd find very interesting in 9 space, and corresponds rather closely to what I premised in a past thread[1]. So, I believe we're speaking the same language; but the picture you've painted seems