On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 14:40 +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote: > This is just not realistic (although not completely infeasible). The > information you gave me, as well as the previous thread discussing > with Amir leads me to think that the Ajax-based implementation of > an X-Windows-like layer would definitely be the way to go, as far > as porting TeXmacs (and other X-Windows/MS-Windows interactive > apps) to the web is cincerned. Something that would provide : > > 1/ The ability to detect & reprogram events ; > 2/ The ability to draw & to display fonts ; > 3/ The ability to create subwindows ; > > Currently, such a project appears to be feasible, but it is > hard to obtain a very efficient/stable result. But given what > you, along with others say, it seems definitely possible that > at some point, the efficiency of such an "X-Web-Windows" > implementation becomes comparable to what can be done > in C++ on top of a classical Window manager. It is even > rather probable, finally.
Well, there is SVG Terminal: http://networkimprov.net/airwrx/awscene.html One interesting thought experiment: * Suppose TeXmacs' PS-Device had a Cairo backend (which would be a very useful thing to have in any case.) * Cairo already has an SVG backend, suppose that backend could be made to perform well. Suppose further it could be made to modify the SVG document incrementally. * Serialize the Cairo's changes to the SVG Term protocol and you get a TeXmacs-in-a-browser. Well, yes this is science fiction as of now. But, maybe we could start small and implement a cairo backend for TeXmacs...? :) Felix _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
