HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

Post by sime2009 » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

vbit wrote: post #127

dejawu wrote: post #68

Anybody remember TermKit[0]? This was my first thought when I saw "JS/HTML/CSS Terminal". It was built on WebKit (five years ago, before the everything-in-JS craze really began) and had a lot of really promising features like smart MIME-type support... and then development sort of stopped. I'd love to see the concept revisited with present-day technologies and platforms. [0]: https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Heh yes. There was also a mozilla XUL based terminal many years ago - can't remember the name though.

Post by laumars » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #58

city41 wrote: post #43

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What did you lose enthusiasm for? commando or HyperTerm? I've been toying with the idea of a "teaching terminal" for learning the command line as well, and building off of HyperTerm seems like a good approach.

A teaching shell might be more important. Something like what Reason does for OCaml, but done for the the unix command line. Use the model of something like is common with a lot of MUD clients, all text input occurs in a field at the bottom (look at tinyfugue). Below that have a set of autocomplete hints. This would be filled in based off of common usage, and knowledge of binaries avialable in the path, knowledge of…

Post by jsprogrammer » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 8:51 PM UTC

dejawu wrote: post #68

Anybody remember TermKit[0]? This was my first thought when I saw "JS/HTML/CSS Terminal". It was built on WebKit (five years ago, before the everything-in-JS craze really began) and had a lot of really promising features like smart MIME-type support... and then development sort of stopped. I'd love to see the concept revisited with present-day technologies and platforms. [0]: https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Post by posterboy » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 9:00 PM UTC

mirekrusin wrote: post #36

posterboy wrote: post #11

the video is a bit silly in the end

It is outrageously silly but maybe that's the point - it carries a message that you can do whatever you want with it (and implies - without much effort, if you can do silly things like this). There is unexplored area sitting just right there. Imagine having easy access to ncurses replacement, jupyter kernels like output from any of your "console" tools - that would be awesome.

Post by Jtsummers » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

digler999 wrote: post #138

Jtsummers wrote: post #38

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A very similar name for a product sitting in the same space (terminal emulator). That's generally an unwise decision as it can create confusion for both projects, and the one with the trademark (especially since this new one's name is a substring of the older project) is in a position to make a valid claim against the new project. If someone created a new project called Steem to deliver video games to end users[, wou…

> if Valve took issue isn't it true that companies have to take issue, otherwise they lose their trademark? I used to be angry when large corporations would sue a little guy or nonprofit over name squabbles, but then I heard that the big company can lose their trademark if they dont.