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

[Gregory B. <gre...@ya...>]

Scott,

	You hit the nail on the head.  A core ECMAScript microserver sans any 
browser-specific integration at the bottom turtle (trying to sound like 
Rohit here).  Then layers for things like browsers, etc wrap around 
that.

so, like how soon?  ;-)

-greg

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 06:22  PM, Scott Andrew LePera wrote:

> 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?