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.

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