On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:51:01 +0100 Connor Lane Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15 June 2010 09:58, Robert Ransom <[email protected]> wrote: > > - a terminal emulator written in JavaScript > > - which produces its output by manipulating XML DOM objects > > - which in turn cause a browser to rerun its page *layout* algorithm > > - and then redraw the terminal screen > > You have heard of HTML5's <canvas>, right? No, I hadn't. Does that only bypass the text layout step, or does it allow directly painting on the screen? > It's the JavaScript which makes me balk. I think the web will be a lot > nicer to develop for once browsers begin to understand that <script > type="text/x-python"> means it should spawn a (sandboxed) Python > interpreter, etc. Try <script type='application/python3'> or <script type='application/scheme+r6rs'> (the text/* media types are supposed to be for content meant to be displayed as text, and in a format that is human-readable if displayed as plain text). Or try scheme2js. > However, HTML and HTTP do not form a panacea. It's just the "in thing" > nowadays to write slow, buggy clones of existing software in > JavaScript and to call it innovation. But they added ‘social networking’! Robert Ransom
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