Witold Filipczyk wrote: > WYSIWYG HTML editor will be "side effect". > In one frame simple JS application - text editor. > In second frame text will be rendered.
So this won't be WYSIWYG editor, but rather on-fly preview (but we got this already, well, almost... with F4...) it can be done in FrontPage style, with tabs, too... > > Additional feature: plugins. > What they could do, and what is not allowed > and how the prevention will be look like. But how do you want to run them in DOS ? (maybe in Linux it would be possible...) >>But I am rather talking about defining lower level API - for portable >>JavaScript library. Let's implement about 20-30 basic I/O and graphical >>commands, which will be available on all supported platforms.... > > > JavaScript applets could|should|must be translated to p-code > (implement loops, conditions and data access). Why ? I believe we can have JS interpreting, parsing line after line and directly executing them.... > Sorry, how much Flowerpot is done, already? Well... I have copied relevant Arachne modules to single directory... and I have Makefile for compiliing .so dynamicaly linked library for Linux.... > All crossplatform libraries are too slow and|or too complicated to use. > Source code written with use of crossplatform is the same size as with > use of native libraries, but machine code is double. But I want arachne to be multiplatform. It will be optimized for what is available in DOS/single task - other platforms usually offer higher performance, that's all... > Main problem is multitasking, just lack of multitasking in DOS. > I would rather portable Arachne "look and feel" than portable sources. Forking main codebase would be fatal (I already got lost in all those #ifdefs...) -- Michael "xChaos" Polak +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104 http://www.arachne.cz (Arachne Labs homepage) http://www.mp3records.cz (100% legal and free music) http://www.legalizace.cz (Stop drug war & release victims !) http://www.vojna.cz (Petice za zruseni vojny i civilni sluzby)
