> The Squeak community has been active in developing SOAP and RSS  
> support, but I have not been able to load the SOAPcore class  
> (http://map.squeak.org/package/ 
> dab9b621-00d2-41c3-966c-458bf62b8008) into Croquet due to  
> dependencies on earlier versions of Squeak.
>
> Rendering of HTML (as found in the wild) is weak. The scamper  
> browser has not kept up with the evolving web and cannot handle  
> JavaScript and AJAX-enabled sites. Most users on this list will  
> suggest using a VNC connection to a real browser. VNC is banned in  
> my organization, particularly across the firewall. If you use VNC,  
> then you are clearly interacting with the presentation of the data,  
> not the data itself.
>
> -- Peter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Florent THIERY" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>; "Peter Quirk" <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [croquet-user] idea topology and distancing
>
>>> To interact with external BPM tools, I need to communicate with  
>>> them via web
>>> services. I asked on the croquet-developer list a while back  
>>> about how to
>>> interact with web services when core distribution doesn't seem to  
>>> include
>>> support for SOAP, and the SoapClient package won't load. If  
>>> anyone has an
>>> answer or example, I would be most grateful. Should we expect  
>>> standard support
>>> for SOAP, RSS, XSD, RDF, UDDI and other Web 2.0 technologies in  
>>> future releases
>>> of Croquet?
>>
>> This is a very interesting question indeed. Are there RPC types in
>> croquet that may allow inter-program communication, with local or web
>> applications? Can one render html within croquet directly?
>>
>> I recently read about ogoglio, which offers this very interesting
>> feature already (such as displaying textures made of photos from a
>> flickr account); is there some inherent limitation to take  
>> opencroquet
>> as base for this type of "mashup", and would have led him to do his
>> own platform?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Florent