[Lynx-dev] html5 canvas support, anyone?

[Philip Ashmore]

Hi there.

I'm writing some Qt JavaScript classes that anyone can create user 
interfaces with,
on a html5 canvas.

In case you don't know, Qt is a suite of c++ libraries upon which KDE is 
based.

The intention is for the browser to one day be clever enough to step in 
with some
real Qt widgets, as a performance improvement.

Then anyone could download web applications straight into their browser, 
like they
do with Java, but with html5 canvas elements as the applications user 
interface.

It occurred to me that things like scroll bars and list boxes already have
their equivalents in html, so lynx has a lot of the pieces there, apart from
JavaScript.

The canvas 2D context has strokeText() and fillText(), so you could get 
text on the
terminal that way. It would lose a lot of html mark-up, but web apps 
properly written
could work fine in lynx with a html5 canvas and user interface element 
implementations
provided by lynx.

If it takes off I can see lynx replacing the myriad of terminal programs 
out there,
and because the user just needs an internet-connection/local-storage and 
the url of
their favourite (whatever) tool, they will need very little besides lynx 
+ SpiderMonkey
installed by default.

What about audio elements?
Ascii art video?

Let me know what you think.

Regards,
Philip Ashmore