wow, this is so cool!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Proposal "Pivot goes HTML5"
From: Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun 13 Nov 2011 09:49:37 PM CST
> Gang,
>
> I have been toying around with the idea of abstracting away the AWT
> dependency in Pivot, and make that pluggable.
>
> Why would you like to do that?
>
> Well, my secondary target is to make Pivot run on GWT, so that we can have
> Pivot applications running on HTML5 Canvas as well as AWT, and potentially
> Android...
>
> I think the Pivot+GWT+HTML5Canvas would be a killer feature. No one else
> offers a windowing toolkit for HTML5+Java written in Java. Messing with
> <div/> and CSS is fine, but not that nice when richer applications are
> needed.
>
> So for the GUI part of Pivot, we would end up with something like this;
>
> +--------------------+
> | Application |
> +--------------------+
> +--------------------+
> | Pivot API |
> +--------------+ |
> +------------+ | |
> | Pivot Skin | | |
> +------------+ +-----+
> +--------------------+
> | Pivot SPI |
> +--------------------+
> +-----+ +------------+
> | AWT | | GWT |
> +-----+ +------------+
> +-----+ +------------+
> | JVM | | JavaScript |
> +-----+ +------------+
> +------------+
> | HTML5 |
> +------------+
> +------------+
> | Browser |
> +------------+
>
> The refactorings needed to make this a reality are quite extensive, and the
> GWT implementation is going to take some time as well. But I think it is a
> reasonable scope and something that can gather quite a lot of new
> contributors, plenty to scratch and revived interest in Pivot. As you
> figured, it is not possible to keep compatibility with this change, so it
> is fairly clear that the changes don't qualify for 2.1 ;-)
>
>
> WDYT?
>
>
> Cheers
