Asteroid (a small Comet)

Summary: A small, but functional, implementation of the "new" technology named Comet.
Author: Diego Gomez Deck
Owner: Diego Gomez Deck (dgd)
Co-maintainers: <None>
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Non official package - Just a package for Squeak, no community guarantees. :)
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Squeak3.8 - Released 25 May 2005.
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Description:

Asteroid is a small, but still functional, implementation of the new(?) technology named Comet.

See more about comet at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMET_(programming)

Depends on:

Comanche
JSON-Squeak (http://kilana.unibe.ch:8888/JSON/JSON-sp.12.mcz)

Features

JSON-rpc implementation
disconnection handled in browsers
- manual reconnection
- automatic reconnection working in IE
visual feedback (using script.aculo.us)
- rpc
- connection/disconnection
- events reception

Examples

Comet Widgets: A proof of concept showing the posibility to create a set of pure MVC widgets.
- Tested with IE, Firefox/Linux and Firefox/Windows.
Comet Canvas: A proof of concept showing how a morphic world can be rendered using the canvas tag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas(HTMLelement).
- Tested with Firefox (version 1.5) and IE (using the google's canvas emulation library http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/)

See http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5851 for more info.

Releases

1-1 -
2-1 -

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