Re: [Atomos-discuss] Fun@#!!

[Scott E. <ps...@gm...>]

On 1/7/07, Bryan Elliott <for...@gm...> wrote:
> Danks ^_^.  I have some ideas for a mimimalist environment within which
> AtomOS could work.  S'why I was asking about the backend stuff before.

Glad to hear that.  I've played with creating customized distros, and
while it truly is fun and very educational, it's also quite time
consuming.

Love to hear what you think such an environment should look like.
I've been thinking lately to use the LFS project
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) as a base for the image though I'm
not sure it'd be worth the effort just yet.

> > Would you be interested in taking on an AOS-specific
> > customized live CD?  Would you like to hack on the AOS code?
>
> Sure, on both counts.  I have a bit of experience hacking on things like the
> backend bash daemons in Slax and Ubuntu that handle disk recognition,
> process throttling, etc (could be better done in Perl or C, but hey; not
> everyone does perl, and writing it in a compiled lingo means distributing
> the source).
>
> Also, I'm almost as browser quirks fluent as this guy (though I'm not a very
> good writer, so no book to my credit), with one exception: I'm better at
> XMLHttpRequest / iFrame / Script include wrangling (ie: I found out good
> ways to fall back to other techniques if XMLHttp isn't working and we're
> using JSON).  So, I'd really like to have a stab at debugging cross-browser
> compatibility issues.

Absolutely wonderful.  =)

I'm familiar with the quirksmode site.  Lol.  'Been visiting it
on-and-off for years.  Definately good to have a x-browser developer
on board who's familar with some (of the seemingly zillions of)
browser quirks.

> I'd also like to have a hand in separation of design / presentation /
> structure / content / behavior of the OS (I've become pretty practiced in
> it, so far).

How do you see the seperation of the project components?  I'd like to
delve into this topic deeper - it could have a serious impact on the
way the project is developed.  I've had some difficulty organizing and
documenting; suggestions would be more than welcome.

> Oh, if anyone wants to see some stuff I've done recently:
> http://wwwdev.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni (what I do at my
> real job - on the development server 'cos it won't be live 'till monday.
> Take a look at the JS for the navmenu and the tabbed boxes; they're great
> examples of how I do JS OOP).
>
> http://www.fordi.org/comics (the neat little dock at the bottom is my work;
> the pages are stuff I like to look at.  For some reason, I'm not fond of
> bookmarks.  I'm actually working on it; a '+' symbol to add a link, and a
> nice interface for choosing the image)

Nice clean code.  I love it, and the dock in particular.  Has me
wondering if a version could be implemented for the AOS desktop.
Along the lines of an applet maybe?

-- 
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