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The OpenCroquet ProjectThe OpenCroquet ProjectPosted Feb 25, 2005 3:23 UTC (Fri) by sethml (subscriber, #8471)Parent article: The OpenCroquet Project
Um, this article has a lot of detail, but after reading it I still had pretty much no idea of what OpenCroquet *is*, or what it's for. It wasn't until I went to the web site and toured through some of the introductory material that I had any idea. Perhaps you should add a few introductor paragraphs, or at least direct readers to check out the OpenCroquet website before they attempt to understand the article?
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The OpenCroquet Project Posted Mar 3, 2005 17:35 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] From the screenshots, it seems to be a crossover of yet another attempt at realising Doug Engelbart's vision for collaborative computing, with yet another attempt at a 3D interface, with networking. What they are saying that is really interesting is that their usage of Squeak as a platform (not only Smalltalk as a programming language) may make it flight this time.
I like the idea, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of going 3D. I'd be more comfortable with 3D was an option and all collaboration could be performed in text mode (braille terminals, dumb terminals anyone?) or in 2D (old machines) as well.
The OpenCroquet Project Posted Mar 6, 2005 17:55 UTC (Sun) by matty_x (guest, #28266) [Link] "From the screenshots, it seems to be a crossover of yet another attempt at realising Doug Engelbart's vision for collaborative computing, with yet another attempt at a 3D interface, with networking."
Absolutely!
"I'd be more comfortable with 3D was an option and all collaboration could be performed in text mode (braille terminals, dumb terminals anyone?) or in 2D (old machines) as well."
Why not bring up a braille terminal or a dumb terminal within a 3D Croquet window? Or use an old machine to VNC a better machine that's running Croquet? Or work collaboratively on a 2D project from within a Croquet window on your machine while a user with an older machine works directly in the 2D environment... The cool thing about Croquet is that all of the things you suggest are entirely possible.
For more fun with Croquet, check this out:
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