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29 Mar, 2010 02:09 PM via web

How feasilbe do people think porting robotlegs over to work with html5 would be?

  1. 2 Posted by Jonny Reeves on 29 Mar, 2010 02:59 PM

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    Paddy, This question may well get accused of flame-baiting :)

    I've not had a close look at HTML5, but I don't think there will be many, if any application frameworks created for it as it's a rich display / markup language rather then a scripting language.

    I'm guessing that your question would be better phrased as "Porting Robotlegs to JavaScript" which may indeed be possible (if not entirely pleasant :))

  2. 3 Posted by Stray on 29 Mar, 2010 03:50 PM

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    I'm thinking of doing a port in Lego. It has such great accessibility for small children, and you don't need a plugin to use it. Not sure if Microshaft are support it before IE15 though. But still, it'll work on the iPad. You just use the iPad usb adapter, one of those little usbkey-legobrick things and build on that api:

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-USB-Stick/

  3. 4 Posted by paddy on 29 Mar, 2010 04:02 PM

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    @Jonny, no flame-baiting intended ;) You're right, porting to JavaScript is more relevant. I was looking at PureMVC's JavaScript port and just got me thinking how easily robotlegs could be made to be language agnostic too.

  4. 5 Posted by Stray on 29 Mar, 2010 04:15 PM

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    Apologies Paddy - I thought you were kidding... a lot of 'Hey - let's port this Air App to HTML 5' jokes going around at the moment.

    I'm afraid I know nothing useful about HTML 5 ports, so I'll shut up.

    For clarity - I am not really attempting a Lego port of Robotlegs. Though, it would be very cool... it could have *actual* robotlegs.

  5. 6 Posted by Jonny Reeves on 29 Mar, 2010 04:59 PM

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    Well in theory it should be possible; a quick google shows that there is some kind of maverick JQuery hack to provide annotations via HTML Comments (a whole world of crazy, but then I find ECMAScript 3 pretty crazy in general).

    Infact we can go one further and see that Squirrel IoC provides a full dependency injector

    Not that I would want to go anywhere near this project ;)

  6. 7 Posted by paddy on 29 Mar, 2010 06:11 PM

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    no probs @Stray - it was amusing ;)
    Thanks @Jonny - any Class with this in it's header makes you nervous:

    • W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G

    I might spend a bit of time looking at Squirrel IoC... and look at JasFac http://code.google.com/p/jasproject/wiki/JasFac

    Thanks

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