New eToys [Was: Re: [Etoys] EToys question -- clearly I'm missing some key concept]

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Fri Jan 26 10:09:54 EST 2007


Alan Kay skrev:
>
> Unfortunately browsers don't work that way. If JS and DOM were as 
> capable and fast as Squeak this would be easy. But the very reason we 
> have to download an executable plugin to run Squeak/Etoys is that the 
> capabilities of the browser are still lacking. To me, this is a huge 
> problem that needs to be resolved (in part because many American and 
> other school children are prevented from any downloads that involve 
> plugins and/or executables by the sysAdmins of their school district).
>
> Last year, we did do a Logo entirely in the browser JS and DOM to see 
> what could be done. This worked. So the answer is: some things but not 
> enough. 
Here is a page I found on digg:
http://bennolan.com/articles/2007/01/24/moon-lander-using-the-canvas-tag

Moon lander written in javascript.

Karl


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