On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:46 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > The combination of technologies going under the name "HTML 5" have > made/are making web technology based applications finally competitive > with those built using conventional toolkits such as Qt, GTK+, and the > Windows and Mac equivalents. > > If everything gets done inside or through your browser, it would make > toolkits such as GTK and desktop environments such as GNOME obsolete, > except as platforms for a browser.
Agreed. But that is besides the point. If you read "browser" as web rendering engine, it is not that different to what GTK+ is if you have all the code, and media that is used locally, as part of your application. Think Gwibber here, or devhelp. Both of them are not going out for remote content - they are just using the web rendering engine as one of their toolkits, to render the part of their UI that needs more flexibility, and where it makes sense to use a browser. Applying a browser engine to all kinds of problems does not mean we are supporting transferring all our applications to the "cloud". I for one, am not. So, we should think about 'Gecko', and 'WebKitGTK+' here, not about Firefox, and Epiphany only. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]> GNOME Project _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
