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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Stephen De Gabrielle wrote at
04/09/2014 10:13 AM:<br>
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<div>Does the WeScheme IDE fit the bill?<br>
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WeScheme doesn't satisfy the first point quoted below. As nice as
it would be to have DrRacket itself as an offline app on all HTML5
devices, being able to compile a running DrRacket for this target
also suggests that we can compile many other Racket GUI apps for
this target.<br>
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Also, WeScheme requires not only an Internet connection, but a
centralized cloud-based/privacy-unfriendly service like I mentioned
earlier. How WeScheme works made sense for the browsers available
at the time and the classroom purposes to which it was put.
However, it does not make sense for a more general use app or app
platform on a modern HTML5 tablet.<br>
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Neil V.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Neil
Van Dyke <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Some reasons/scenarios I see for doing DrRacket in HTML5 on
tablets are:<br>
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* Stress-test the Racket HTML5 system: if DrRacket can run,
most other stuff should.<br>
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* Lots of people have tablets, and then they could use
DrRacket on them.<br>
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* When Racketeers are waiting for the bus or whatever,
instead of playing another game of Angry Flappy Sudoku
Ninja, they could play with some idea in DrRacket. Maybe it
is different than what they normally work on when at a
keyboard, and that can be good.<br>
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Most of my early Racket libraries, as well as Quack, were
written from parks and cafes and such, when I had a modest
laptop and no Internet, and I was very bored. Since that
laptop had maybe 1/20 the CPU of a typical tablet this year,
and 1/500 the RAM, maybe some smart person could get
DrRacket running OK in HTML5 on ordinary tablets, so even
more people's boredom can be turned into Ideas That
Evaluate.<br>
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Neil V.<br>
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