Re: Lua-to-browser communication

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:09:02AM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> Something more specialized than the full Kepler stack is Orbiter [1].
> It's designed specifically to write little Lua servers that run on the
> same machine as the browser, or within a _trusted_ intranet.  It looks
> and feels very much like Orbit, except that it generates (X)HTML using
> a LOM representation.
This sounds just like what I need.

> It only depends on LuaSocket, so it's relatively easy to get working.
I've unzipped it, changed to the examples directory and tried
    lua hello.lua
It can't find orbiter.lua or orbiter.so anywhere.  

> 
> [1] https://github.com/stevedonovan/Orbiter
> 
There's a tarball marked 534b119 and a zipfile marked 8a97686.
The latter is more recent, I assume.

Dirk