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Good constructive feedback. I thought about it, so one of the next days when I get time, I'll add a little 'Limit Width' button up on top. It'll be freeflow by default, but just on…

Of course. It started with a pdf/lyx version based on the 400Kb eloquent text file, now the tools (elyxer) made it possible to convert to html with some manual fixes. It would be g…

Thanks. I will look into what more I can do tomorrow with the Readability and Kindle documentation, maybe some tweaks to CSS or something.

I made this version. It would be great with 'Pull Request's with the kind of improvements that is being suggested here. The source is at https://github.com/autotelicum/Smooth-Coffe…

Something new is the in-progress cocoa graphics layer. If you try to compile p9p on Mac OS X then you may encounter a problem compiling devdraw. I did, when I recently tried from t…

Indeed. I was just thinking I could try it on the device my neighbor has: A very cheap android 2.2 tablet with a resistive screen and pen, no multitouch. Never mind, it can hardly …

Wow! Can it run acme? I'm wondering because "treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse" If so, how is the right and middle click used? Anyway utterly cool stuff!

You can adapt some of the benchmark programs from http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ I can not see it being used for much except trying a new language or a benchmark. The compilati…

I like the concept - really nice. It would be cool to see an update of Calculize use a math library instead of JavaScript numbers. In Calculize: a = 1/3 show a+a+a+a+a+a == 6*a # =…

A temporary workaround for newlines is to copy/paste them in the box. Adding the bookmarklet and then going to http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/ gives a good way of e…

Smooth CoffeeScript is a book about programming, problem solving, looking into how algorithms work, and learning from it. Those things really appealed to me in Eloquent JavaScript.…

Well, I did not say that I really wanted to support other formats. Here are my reasons: JavaScript has always possessed an inner, lisp-like beauty. CoffeeScript allows that beauty …

Several of the examples in "smooth" are quite different from "eloquent" and use a http or websocket server, so they require the node.js runtime environment and can not run only in …

The book's homepage is at: http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/