Hello, Me being the Debian maintaner for Wt, +1
(I think I was the first one to ever mention Wt in this list and in Planet KDE/Qt :-) ) On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Bob Hood <bho...@comcast.net> wrote: > +1 > > On 1/17/2013 1:50 PM, Jason H wrote: > > What is the "web" you speak of? LOL > > Anyway, that [zero-install] is definitely a legitimate issue. However I > have to puke and kick a puppy when it comes to overall web development. We > were approaching something really good with Java and .NET, but these got > sidelined by a handful of easy-to-implement standards that now requires you > to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: HTML, JS, CSS, MIME, > SQL, .NET or Java or PHP, not to mention Linux/IIS server administration. > > The reason I puke is the number of standards you have to be famialr with. > The reason I kick the puppy is this cannot be the best paradigm software > development can have. It is an organic evolution of indepenendt > technologies that don't come together to make a race horse, they make some > kind of creature that has an arm, and leg, a hoof, a claw, and am mouth and > exit hole. It's very much like a Swiss army knife - does everything but > damn dangerous when you use all the things at once. > > Wt on the other hand, is C++ and takes care of all of that for you. You > can provide a CSS, but you don't have to. It doesn't matter if tomorrow the > web ditches HTML for XML or pure javascript, or ditches MIME headers for > JSON ones. The toolkit will take care of it for you. Don't recode, just > recompile. And let the toolkit take care of browser sniffing. Everything > made hard by traditional web development is made obsolete by Wt. > > And yes, I would love it if Qt and Wt merged. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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