Re: Understanding /dev/draw

Skip/all: there's a lot I think about especially surrounding plan9 and
Inferno. Sadly little action results.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:52 PM Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Joseph, others, have you thought about Dis-to-wasm JIT?  I recall
> Charles/Vita Nuova doing a browser plugin a few years ago, but things could
> be a lot simpler now. HTML5 also has storage api's; a lot of local
> resources can be available via 9p/sytx (devdraw, fs, cons)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:55 PM Joseph Stewart <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm greedily watching this space... if you need testers, please let me
>> know. I have an interest in how/if this could be applied to Inferno was
>> well.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:05 PM Chris McGee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I managed to get it running after all of these years. In case anyone
>>> tries it again here's a few things that I had to do to get it to work on
>>> the latest 9front.
>>>
>>> * Copy the latin1.h header file from the bell labs distribution and copy
>>> it into /sys/src/9/port
>>> * Run ip/httpd/httpd -w /sys/web/9wd (this is where the installation
>>> copies the web app)
>>> * Patch /usr/web/9wd/js/draw/data.js by commenting out the "delete
>>> conn.imgs[id];" line
>>>     * Future draw commands come in referring to the old image for some
>>> reason and the server doesn't handle it well
>>>
>>> Yes, when I coerce the websocket tool to launch rio instead of acme
>>> there's some oddness when I launch new graphical apps within rio from the
>>> windows, such as acme. They tend to think that they should occupy the
>>> entire screen. Also, be patient because it is quite slow for now.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if David is still active in this space?
>>>
>>> Erik, where can I learn more about the layers?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:08 PM erik quanstrom <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> this implementation is enough to run acme,but not a full p9 terminal.
>>>> you'll need layers for that.
>>>>
>>>