other's have done what you're suggesting: http://code.google.com/p/styxbrowser/
also drawterm port to iphone was one of last year's successful gsoc projects. that's not the point though; the point is to have something that runs natively in the browser. if chrome can run angry birds, why not drawterm! -Skip On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM, a z <rhoyerb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ugh, I have to comment because to my noobness this sounds like an easy > project, and an easy project to over-think. Teach a java app how to draw > boxes like rio, and plug it in. Right? > > I would love to use Rio on a touchscreen, unfortunately I need to eat. So if > I get that eating thing figured out Ill download Android SDK and make it > start reading data from what rio listens to and attaching markup to it. > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> > wrote: >> >> > What the hell? They're not saying, "Screw running on hardware, let's >> > just boot the whole system in Javascript under a browser", they want >> > to let you connect to your Plan 9 system from a web browser, because >> > you can find a Javascript-supporting web browser anywhere (except Plan >> > 9) these days. >> > >> > As fgb would say, relax. No "Bell Labs people" have even commented on >> > this thread, and if anybody wants to implement this, it's their own >> > damn business. Writing a drawterm replacement in Javascript is not >> > going to "downgrade" Plan 9. In fact, it would be rather useful--now >> > when you're away from home, you can use somebody else's computer to >> > connect to your CPU server and read your mail, for example. >> >> relax, man. i understand peter's perspective. and i don't think >> it's unreasonable. just think about how dbus has downgraded linux. >> >> on the other hand, i think a js virtual machine (mips would be nicer >> than x86) might be interesting. drawterm has always been a clever >> hack. it would be nice to have emulated environment that's more >> portable than 9vx and not tied to 32-bit x86. >> >> one would then be able to write applications for non-plan 9 users >> in plan 9. clearly they will have a browser. >> >> not that i'm signing up or anything. :-) >> >> - erik >> > > > > -- > ⎼⎺⎺├@┼␊├├≤-␍⎼␊▒␍:/⎺└␊/⎼⎺# >
