----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:19 AM Subject: Re: JavaScript, Flash, Java
> 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...) Use a multitasker, like the one included in DR-DOS > > >>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.... Sounds good > > > 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... Dos allows programs to execute faster than windoze/ linux But dos hasnt got much in the kernel itself, it is mainly for executeing Disk related and program related stuff, Hence "Disk Operating System" > > > 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) > >
