Rob
There is nothing 'simple' about it (have you written a cross platform
COM engine?), also evidently there are huge websites out there running
interpreted php (no kidding), actually the actual programming in most
apps is very simple (my app framework in delphi does most forms in less
than 100 lines) though a lot of people turn up there noses at
intrepreted(sp) apps they can be hugely effective (and faster than
compiled ones), XUL appears to be a very effective cross platofrm ui
Neven
Rob van der Linde wrote:
Firefox and Thunderbird are written in Javascript (no kidding), and the
UI is done with XUL. The whole thing simply runs on an "engine" called
Gecko, which handles (X)HTML, XUL, CSS, Javascript, etc.
Mozilla have a separate project going called XULRunner as I recall,
which is able to run XUL/Javascript apps without Firefox, but I am not
sure how complete XULRunner is.
For now, you should be able to still run XUL apps from the local HDD if
Firefox is called using command line switches.
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 10:51 +1200, Neven MacEwan wrote:
Wayne
Are you looking as LTSP or NoMachine, both purport to support Wine.
My strategy for reducing dependence on M$ is to dismantle the spider-web
of hooks they have into users (to mangle a number of analogies), The
Linux (or pure LTSP) desktop is the long term target, not the immediate
one. First you have to get the windows apps out of the way (or at very
least minimse it), get your users on Firefox & Thunderbird (get rid of
IE and Outlook), if you can then get Open Office in the frame you are in
the clear. Otherwise you will be always fighting a losing battle.
All these posts about Kylix make me think that maybe we should look at
Firefox (& TB) as the most successful cross platform apps, ie Mozilla
based. And what does that toolkit do right?
Neven
Wayne Roser wrote:
Instead of compiling for Linux, our IT dept is trying to get a bunch of windows
programs running on
a linux server using WINE so that we can get free terminal services without
buying the microsoft
product. Some of the software is written in Delphi (by me) and some we buy from elsewhere.
Has anyone done this sort of thing?
"Free" terminal services seems to be pretty labour expensive.
This might be off-list. If so, please email me similarly. Thanks.
Wayne Roser
Kristin School
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