On an only vaguely topical note: It sure would be cool if shoes had a
native extension api, so people could for instance make a webkit gem
that creates a 'browser' Element in the shoes app? That sure would be
nice to see one day.
My legs being mentioned, woah!
I never envisioned legs as being at all webpage compatible (i.e. ajaxy
stuff), but in fact someone did combine it with a python thing called
Orbited and did just that. http://ism.creativepony.com/post/45253773/collins-web-chat-with-legs
I really created Legs in the hope of making something more peery for
medium-level hackety hackers who wanted to move beyond _why's hosted
polling based chat system and make more organic stuff, learn about
networking, while sticking to established conventions on how a class
is created and how methods are called on objects for all of the
communications. :)
I was hoping to have a multiuser game working on legs for shoes day,
but that fell through, then I tried to make a simple chatroom
application, but buggyness in shoes once again foiled my plot, which
has kind of left Legs a bit abandonwarey since, though as far as I
know, fully functional. I think I'd be more interested in maintaining
it if I had a computing device capable of running ruby and doing wifi
which I could leave on all the time as a home server to experiment on,
but, I don't, and I've always felt uncomfortable able using other
peoples dedicated servers for such things. One day I might save up for
a Mac Mini, but that day isn't going to be soon as I'm living in
relative poverty on a dodgy government disability pension. I also have
idea's about how a simple P2P based messaging and presence system
might be implemented as a layer on top of Legs, but p2p networks are
the kinds of things that require quite a lot of user's to test them
properly, so for now, that is just an idea.
Anyway... I kind of veered off topic there! I'm really excited to see
hackety come back to life in shoes form one day. :)
On 04/09/2008, at 8:09 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Joshua Ballanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Let's keep Shoes true to what it is: a tiny toolkit for building GUI
(Gooey?) apps. If you want to do client-server stuff, that's fine.
Maybe
shoes need laces? What about Bluebie's legs? Let's not wedge
one-more-thing-over-the-web in there. What we learned from the web
is that
the stack/flow (block/inline) GUI design model is easy and looks
good.
Great. But I don't think we need more "web" than just that.
Heartily agreed!!
martin
