On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Schrijver <[email protected]> wrote: > Very good idea imho. > > There is a shift from the desktop towards these web apps, especially since > many of them are free—the irony :( > > Though in the world of web apps free software already has the unique selling > point that you can run many of the desktop programs headless on your > webserver—try doing that with a commercial content creation program! > > I’ve seen this done with fontforge a couple of times now; it powers the > conversion engine for cufon, is used in osp’s Nancy. I think wikipedia used > to use inkscape for converting svg, and I read of people using Open Office to > generate pdf’s serverside. > > But web apps with GUI’s are of course a bit of a tougher nut to crack… > > Is there such a thing as a HTML+CSS+JS based port of GTK?
Not AFAIK and it will be a hard nut to crack to port GTK or Qt to Ajax. There is appcelerator: "Appcelerator Titanium is open source software available through an Apache 2.0 license." http://www.appcelerator.com/ I have never experimented with it. -- Phatch Photo Batch Processor - http://photobatch.stani.be SPE Python IDE - http://pythonide.stani.be _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
