Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] We need a PubSub.widget for Konfabulator (OS/X)

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw the Konfabulator stuff 
(although I'm not very familiar with the environment; it's JavaScript 
runtime, with hooks into OSX? Like HTA/XUL?)

Anyway, it would be kinda cool to have a core ECMAScript microserver 
sans any browser-specific integration. A large part of of the KN JS 
connector is dedicated to handling interaction with the browser windows. 
We have the beginnings of a plug-in transport API, but it's still 
tightly bound to the window model (IOW, any alternate transport has to 
mimic window properties and methods so as not to break anything).

So, if we had a core that provided a more generic transport interface, 
it could be more easily ported to similar-yet-different environments 
like Flash ActionScript, Konfabulator and browsers with differing object 
models.

-- Scott

Gregory Burd wrote:
> http://www.konfabulator.com/
> http://kmirror.deskmod.com/info/
> 
> Something that takes part of the JavaScript microserver and gives me the 
> ability to pub/sub in a widget.
> 
> I guess this begs the question, why not split the JavaScript microserver 
> into two pieces, the part that is requires only a JavaScript runtime and 
> the part that requires a JavaScript runtime within a browser (all the 
> fancy browser stuff).  Or maybe its easier to start from scratch and 
> write a pubsub.js "library" for use in JavaScript based projects.
> 
> With that in hand people could create fun and creative widgets for OS/X 
> desktops.  Things that do much the same thing as what we've done for 
> HTML/Browsers, but without that crazy browser in the middle.
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> -greg
> 
> PS:  How long until I can use Safari with the JavaScript microserver?
> 
> 
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