Code.... post it.... else Zzzz On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dennis Kane <dkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> See the newest features here--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2DwueGLM > > The current version of the program now includes drag and drop > functionality of text files from the native desktop straight into the > browser desktop or (any of the subfolders). The difference between my drag > and drop and all the HTML5 demos that you see on the web is that the > dropped files immediately become icons that are integrated into the program. > > I will soon start working on getting multimedia icons/files working, so > you'll be able to drop those directly in too. Then I will probably do a > very basic kind of image editing demo that will allow you to change > individual pixels or some such nonsense. But I don't want to get bogged > down in the details of any particular application, because I always want to > stay focused on the big picture of creating a totally powerful and > intuitive way to organize our online lives. > > Anyway, I know I am quite a controversial figure here, but there should be > no controversy that this thing is just about ready for prime time. I > really do need to start getting interested people on board who would like > to help me push the web forward. The basic mission statement for the > venture will basically be that the "old web" (HTML4/version 1.0) is dead > and gone. If anyone calls in search of help on their Flintstone era <html> > documents with all of their <a href> and <div> tags laying about, we'll > just point them in an entirely new direction. If they still insist on > doing things the old way, we'll just hang up on them… This thing is all > about the future! > > We can easily develop libraries of high-level interface widgets that > people just need to attach event listeners to. There will be no angle > brackets in sight! <hand><coded><html><markup></is></so></last></millenium>! > > Come one, come all, for the thrill of your lives :) > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:36:37 PM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote: > >> I was thinking of just responding to this old >> thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/bEhSbsm24Y4>, >> in which I talk about the browser based Desktop that I've been working on, >> but the new thing I've been doing for the past week is so superior that I >> thought it deserved a completely new thead. By the way, I know this forum >> is all about server side Javascript, but there is not really any serious >> place one can go on the web that talks about the client side. Besides, >> with socket.io & websockets... I don't really make much of a distinction >> between client and server anymore. I just know that there's no reason to >> do a document.getElementById() call in node :) >> >> This new thing is a totally shocking clone of OS X. I knew I was going >> to have to start over from the ground up, because my previous code base was >> so sh*tty, haha! I have really been concentrating on getting a nice, tight >> little API that developers will positively drool over. I don't want to >> make this thing publicly available for many reasons... but you can check >> out a youtube vid >> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=Tq_W19QokXk<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_W19QokXk>) >> that >> shows it in action, and I still have my same old crappy prototype online at >> http://luvluvluv.info. Well, hopefully this is proof that I am able to >> do some cool stuff, and hopefully summa yous will want to start being my >> friend now, LOL!!! >> >> And get this... the current, uncompressed js file size is only 54kb! >> > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
