The Leo-Integ Extension Should Be Able To Run On The In-Browser Version Of VSC

[tbpassin]

There is a version of VSC that runs in a browser. I think it would be a good thing if leo-integ could work in it.

VSC for the browser apparently needs extensions that run code to follow certain rules about browser sandboxes. See Visual Studio Code for the Web. From the link:

"Extensions that are running code need to be updated to support running in the browser sandbox. You can read more about what is involved to support extensions in the browser in the web extension authors guide"

I don't know if leo-integ can be adapted for this since it needs to communicate with a Leo instance via a server, but if not, then presumably Leojs would be able to.

[boltex]

@tbpassin Thanks for creating this issue! I'm going to use it to track progress / planning for this particular feature.

I'm currently working on this exact feature to be usable in leojs, and I plan to make leointeg also usable in the 'vscode for the web' platform. (once i get leojs going with that.)

This is going to require the server to offer additional functionality to 'browse' files on the server side when trying to open/save filesm in order to not rely on the vscode's own file system's to browse/choose files, as the server now should be considered to maybe be on a completely different machine.

EDIT: See my other comment below for a quick & dirty solution for opening/importing dialogs replacement.

[tbpassin]

Great, I think the feature will be very useful to spread leonine usage to a wider range of people. Why I started to think about this is that there is a link in the pages on leoeditor.com that is supposed to load a Leo outline into a browser so one can get an idea what kinds of things the tree and nodes can contain. But the appearance is almost like plain text, and doesn't give a person much of a reason to get interested in Leo, IMO.

leojs-in-the-browser, OTOH, would be ideal for a demo like this. Imagine - the person who is getting interested clicks on the link, and the whole thing opens with the outline already preloaded. Maybe the experience could even be scripted to walk through some typical Leo operations.

[boltex]

Now that LeoJS is mature and works well in the browser, time has come to plan ahead for LeoInteg to now work in the browser.

Phase 1

For now, instead of a full-fledge remote browsing ability to open or import files with a choose-file dialog window, if LeoInteg is running in the browser, or the server is not localhost: It should offer instead a simple text-input box instead, intended for an absolute path on the server.

This would allow to have a version that is somewhat useful if an open command is to be done... and to quickly improve on it later with a more complete remote-browsing dialogs UI experience for opening/importing files through a UI.