Re: [fonc] Task management in a world without apps.

2013-11-03 Thread karl ramberg
One issue with the instance development in Squeak is that it is quite fragile. It is easy to pull the building blocks apart and it all falls down like a house of cards. It's currently hard to work on different parts and individually version them independent of the rest of the system. All parts

Re: [fonc] Task management in a world without apps.

2013-11-03 Thread Alan Kay
When I mention Smalltalk I always point to the 40 year ago past because it was then that the language and its implementation were significant. It was quite clear by the late 70s that many of the compromises (some of them wonderfully clever) that were made in order to run on the tiny machines of

Re: [fonc] Task management in a world without apps.

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Novelli
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Josh Grams j...@qualdan.com wrote: On 2013-11-01 10:37AM, Chris Warburton wrote: My dislike of canvas is that it arrogantly presumes that a user agent has a display to be formatted. I used to develop a CMS called ocPortal which got lots of praise from its