This would require to:
- Retarget one of the existing Haskell compilers to generate JavaScript (other possible targets would be Flash or higher level UI languages such as OpenLaszlo that in turn compiles down to either Flash or JavaScript/HTML)
As I've noticed from experience, you can just write JavaScript itself! (You will end up doing this a lot anyway because any library is bound to be missing some feature you need, say, input textbox history w/ up/down keys, or, say, autoscroll to bottom of iframe when content added, etc. as here): http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~lordkaos/calc.cgi (source available here http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~lordkaos/calc.tar.gz)
Is anyone working on anything similar or that might be interested in such a project?
I'm definitely interested in this. I would love to be able to deploy a Haskell application in the web browser w/out having to drain server computing resources. Imagine reading a Haskell tutorial and providing interactive applications that run in the reader's browser, etc. Also, I really would love to see something in Haskell that can compete with the Web Services / Web Forms stuff from Visual Studio 2005/C# in terms of simplicity and power and feature-completeness: just write your app and it generates all the HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the client and the XML request stuff on the serve. Perhaps in Haskell we could have something fugdets-like but deployable in any (relatively recent) browser w/ no downloads. Jared. -- http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:"