<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I attempted to compile racket for chrome's sandbox (NaCL) but ran into a half dozen issues (functions like execv are not implemented). I haven't pursued it further but its probably possible.<br> <br> On 08/30/2011 06:30 PM, Ray Racine wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAL5pz=LNqzjd9UhyzFcA-qQudE=Uu2OSudk5tLH_c_5=4Riq0A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div>Chrome has solidified their native app capability.  Downside, only support is native apps in C or C++.  Racket scheme is embeddable in a C program, hence, the theoretical possibility of Racket embedded within Chrome.  As native apps are just another app loadable from the Chrome Web Store, Racket in Chrome is just another app install like any other app.  In fact a particular Web App in the store could be a combination of the Racket native app with zos.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I believe an embedded Racket would act very much like a Racket "place" with the HTML 5 / Javascript engine on the other side of the place channel swapping JSON and Sexps.  The native app C sandbox has access to the various chrome apis for storage, sound etc and therefore invokable via Racket as well.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Substantial work I'm sure but the idea of it all just crossed my mind and I'd thought I'd toss it out there.</div> <div><br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users</a></pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>