Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-03-18 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, On 14. Mar, 2014, at 11:23, Alexander Burger wrote: On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Jon, thanks for the input! ... When I tap/click on a menu and the menu drops down, I would like the menu to go away if I tap/click outside the menu, on neutral

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-03-14 Thread Alexander Burger
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Jon, thanks for the input! ... When I tap/click on a menu and the menu drops down, I would like the menu to go away if I tap/click outside the menu, on neutral ground. This is difficult, if not impossible. The menu is

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-07 Thread Rick Lyman
Alex, and the load distributed across multiple servers. How so? Currently PicoLisp forks on the same sever. Are you using remote queries to other PicoLisp instances? A proxy to parse routes? re: https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg00097.html; For production. At the

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-07 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Rick, and the load distributed across multiple servers. How so? Currently PicoLisp forks on the same sever. Are you using remote queries to other PicoLisp instances? A proxy to parse routes? Sure, kind of. See e.g. http://software-lab.de/doc/refR.html#remote/2 You can easily fork

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-06 Thread Rick Lyman
Thanks Henrik and Alex, This came in my email this morning: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=502910cc28cb186a9e829f748id=a8605b778ae=9d2ada32e2 It seems to me that the easiest way to overcome server volume(1) limitations (http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html;), is by executing a much as possible

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-06 Thread Rick Lyman
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/firefox-os-tablet-developer-program/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/panasonic-firefox-os-deal/ On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Rick Lyman lyman.r...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Henrik and Alex, This came in my email this morning:

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-06 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Rick, It seems to me that the easiest way to overcome server volume(1) limitations (http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html;), is by executing a much as possible on the client. See also: http://www.generalinterface.org/;. It all depends on the application. But, in my experience, the relative load

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Lyman
Alex, I trust that you had a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year... Supporting phones is a very good idea: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/mobile-phone-world-population-2014/; The article mentions: Of the 6 billion cell phones in use, only around 1.1 billion of them are mobile-broadband

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2014-01-05 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Rick, a Happy New Year to you too! And to everybody else, of course! :) And thanks for the feedback and links. I have mixed feelings about: this would break the fundamental rule that the GUI should also work in an environment without JavaScript It seems contrary to what most companies

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2013-12-25 Thread Jon Kleiser
no difference on Android. ;-) When I tap/click on a menu and the menu drops down, I would like the menu to go away if I tap/click outside the menu, on neutral ground. /Jon Hi all, it is quite straightforward to use the standard PicoLisp GUI on smartphones, basically by including a CSS file and new bar

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2013-12-25 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, thanks for the input! Numerical input elements can/should be given pattern attributes that trigger the numerical keypad on iPhones/iPads, like this: input pattern=[0-9]* type=text value=55667788 / As far as I know, this pattern makes no difference on Android. ;-) This could be

PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2013-12-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, it is quite straightforward to use the standard PicoLisp GUI on smartphones, basically by including a CSS file and new bar menu function. More about this on http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?PhoneGUI The article presents a simple demo, and describes how to access it. A merry Christmas

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2013-12-23 Thread Rick Lyman
re: HTML5 What future features are being worked on? Thanks Alex, -rl On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.dewrote: Hi all, it is quite straightforward to use the standard PicoLisp GUI on smartphones, basically by including a CSS file and new bar menu

Re: PicoLisp GUI on Smartphones

2013-12-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Rick, re: HTML5 What future features are being worked on? In the long range, I assume that the hardware of mobile devices will be fully supported (see e.g. Firefox OS). Currently, the geolocation API works fine. Also device orientation, camera access, touch events, vibration and so on. For