On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Stani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Its very cool...using it a lot.

Jon

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