On 15 June 2010 12:51, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > On 15 June 2010 09:58, Robert Ransom <rransom.8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> - a terminal emulator written in JavaScript >> - which produces its output by manipulating XML DOM objects >> - which in turn cause a browser to rerun its page *layout* algorithm >> - and then redraw the terminal screen > > You have heard of HTML5's <canvas>, right? > > It's the JavaScript which makes me balk. I think the web will be a lot > nicer to develop for once browsers begin to understand that <script > type="text/x-python"> means it should spawn a (sandboxed) Python > interpreter, etc.
There is a paradox solution: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/ It is the logical consequence of seeing the browser as the low level bit of application programming if one faces the limitations of the web 2.0 stack ;) --Anselm
