Michaelwagner Wrote: > I'm not suggesting Slim drop support for the web interface. Clearly it > has it's advantages. But also it's disadvantages. > > I wasn't suggesting, as your next paragraph did, a compiled app. Just a > perl app, delivered the way the current perl app is. Only as a separate > program, and not using a web browser as a UI.
A perl app still would require some kind of GUI framework to make what you are proposing work, and that's where you'd run into cross-platform issues. I don't think my AJAX skin has abandoned the simplicity of the webpage...I'm still operating 100% in the perl template toolkit environment provided by the slimserver codebase for skin development. The only major difference is that I'm writing a lot of javascript instead of html. Yes, that's a lot more involved than templating straight html, but it's a heck of a lot easier than writing a custom app in <insert your favorite language here>. On the app front, see also: Moose, Softsqueeze, Softslave, although none of them are truly cross-platform. Softsqueeze is java, so in theory can work everywhere, but it's never really worked as advertised on Linux. Moose is .NET or some such windows thing, and thus limited to Windows. Softslave I'm not as familiar with, but it's a c++ compiled thing as I recall. Also keep your eye on Songbird, the XUL music player that will a) I think be truly cross platform, and b) is rumored to be building slimserver support. cheers, #!/ben weren't we talking about Sonos? -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25321 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
