The current project plan is very ad-hoc...
Overall Attack Plan
- Write a generic XMLHTTP abstraction for sending and receiving data. See transport...
- One way chat
- One way video
- Two way chat
- ...
Current and Future Activities
- Learn JavaScript (big one)
- Investigate what privileged code in JavaScript means.
- Can you make access to other sites?
- Can you do local file access?
- What communications possibilities exists in JavaScript?
- Can you communicate using other means than HTTP? UDP? TCP?
- Investigate framework further...
- Prototype, Yahoo UIL seems to be the two most promising right now.
- Investigate what privileged code in JavaScript means.
- Create a web page with links to various tests created in conjunction with Thelma.
- How should data be transferred for the various media components to the running client?
- Chat: Should we e.g. use XML with push or something else?
- Should a JavaScript framework be used?
- Will e.g. the usage of Prototype impede on future usage?
- If, yes which framework should be used.
- Update the technology discussions so all items at least has some initial text.
- How should JavaScript code be packaged?
- It seems like JavaScript files cannot include additional so all have to be included from the main HTML file which opens for ugliness....
- Can the download be optimized via gzip of the script-files?
- How general is that?
- Switch the diary over to a real blog that people can RSS.
Done Activities
- 2006-02-26 Setup initial project web site
- 2006-02-22 Order relevant books from Amazon.