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Hourglass icon is infinitely rotate in a center.
Hi, @tonyg @zot @jsparkes @timfel @krono
I have met this error when run your SqueakJS with my swikiswiki image.
My swiki image is well loaded to run webpage,
But, then a Hourglass icon is infinitely rotate in a center.
What's wrong to me ??
Thanks in advance. Best,
@bemoregt.
Do you see any error messages in the browser console (e.g., F12 in Chrome)?
Your "swiki image" likely is trying to start the swiki web server. That is not supported by SqueakJS because it runs in a web page itself so cannot be a server for other pages.
You can try to press cmd-. (command and period, or maybe alt-period) to interrupt the startup process, which may allow you to use the image interactively. But you won't be able to start the Swiki server.
Thinking about this, some day someone might want to look at trying to proxy Squeak HTTP services with service workers using the technique illustrated here:
https://itnext.io/how-to-create-web-server-in-browser-ffaa371d2b53
(c.f. Nerd Sniping)
Interesting idea. This would still only work in the same browser ... so you could browse the Swiki locally, but not from elsewhere.
Another idea would be to emulate a full TCP/IP stack and tunnel packets through some other form of transport. I actually did that and it's working to some extent, but not entirely complete or tested.
I had to do that myself because I could not find a JavaScript implementation of TCP/IP. If we had that it would be a lot simpler. Maybe if I turned it into a library, other people would complete it, but the utility seams limited (otherwise someone would have done it already I assume).
Compiling some C library to web assembly might be the way to go, but it's unclear how to connect that to an actual transport layer.