Hi! Loosely related, the other day I found: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/410856/Canvas-Control-Library-and-New-Forms-Based-System https://github.com/akshaysrin/CanvasControlLibrary
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Eric Reynolds <eric.remo.reyno...@gmail.com > wrote: > That sounds great, I am just wondering though, that would require you to > redevelop a library of widgets to be able to set up a GUI, so why not use > HTML? > > How do you do the code caching and hot fixing? Have you packaged your code > into a module on npm? > > Eric. > > > On Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:53:25 UTC+2, David Goehrig wrote: > >> I do something similar, but rather than the DOM, I use canvas and the >> only bit of frontend is the code to open the websocket and compile and run >> each drawing function sent by the server. Once a drawing function is >> compiled on the client side, it is cached and reused. All image, sound, >> and video assets cache by the browser normally. >> >> Works beautifully, and even allows for upgrading the user experience (bug >> fix) on the fly w/o reloading. >> >> Dave >> >> -=-=- da...@nexttolast.com -=-=- >> >> On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Eric Reynolds <eric.remo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> In the last few days I have been experimenting with a new project I have >> called browsy <https://npmjs.org/package/browsy>. I am posting here >> because, being a node.js novice, I'd like to find out whether my idea is >> wrong, and why, or if actually it would generate some interest. >> >> So the concept is: *rather than writing client and server code, the >> server contains all the logic and it directly manipulates the client DOM >> using low-level constructs over socket.io*. >> >> The disadvantage of this is performance. The big advantage is ease of >> development - when you write an app it feels like it's a stand-alone >> desktop app with multiple windows (instead of 'clients'). The target use >> case is where (a) there's a fast connection between the server and the >> client, say a LAN (b) you don't have a bajillion users and (c) you want to >> get it working really really quickly. So something like basic multi-user >> office automation, for example, or quick development of GUI interfaces for >> a server app. >> >> An initial version of the library is available on >> npm<https://npmjs.org/package/browsy>, >> it's already got enough functionality to build a simple chat application >> (see the package readme <https://npmjs.org/package/browsy#readme> for a >> tutorial). >> >> I'd really appreciate any feedback! >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List-** >> 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 nod...@googlegroups.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
