Re: [Texmacs-dev] Daydreaming: TeXmacs as a web app

[Miguel de Benito Delgado]

QT already did most of the work:

   http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client

And Google states the environment is POSIX like, so building guile / 
your favorite Scheme and a couple libraries ought to be achievable.

Then all we need is the *definitive concurrent tree editing protocol* (I 
guess Joris would like that!), a reasonable server infrastructure to 
support it, and then TeXmacs would run in any computer with a chromium / 
chrome browser and be killing killer apps for a while.

Good bye, conventional plugins, though. I don't think communication out 
of the sandbox provided by the browser would be easy or even allowed. 
Hello, remote plugins! Tap the power of some grid, from a web browser, 
no installation required!

Wow, now this is daydreaming... Oh, wait, it's 2:56 am...

Good night,
Miguel.

Miguel de Benito Delgado wrote:
> Check out Google's Native Client:
>
>     https://developers.google.com/native-client/
>
> Their tutorial shows how to communicate between C++ code and 
> Javascript with a few lines:
>
>   https://developers.google.com/native-client/pepper16/devguide/tutorial
>
> The infrastructure is mostly already there in TeXmacs, right?
>
> "All" that is needed is an HTML5 / Javascript frontend and the 
> corresponding TeXmacs plugin for the user interface, plus compiling 
> all of the scheme code into the bundle, which should be easier now 
> that Massimiliano has decoupled the scheme interpreter.
>
> Well, that and quite a lot of work... Volunteers?? X-DD

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Miguel de Benito.