I believe this is possible today via PhoneGap-ish Desktop App frameworks and with Windows 8 you can build desktop apps with HTML5. Ubuntu is also working on making desktop apps from web technologies. As well as Chrome OS. :)
HTML5 will soon be the most ubiquitous UI technology for web, desktop, and mobile apps. :) -James On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:20 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > Wake me up when you can write to a DVD drive from HTML5. > > Desktop apps have their problems but I believe they're more in > security than straight ugliness/difficulty. Who wants to run my > random exe file compared to navigating to my random web page? > Virtually nobody, because the OSs don't sandbox applications, they > sandbox users. That needs fixing, plus the requirement of admin > rights to install apps needs removing, then we can eliminate this > pointless web/desktop boundary and start writing more straightforward > code again. > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:34:19 PM UTC+2, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > >> > >> This is agreeable (for the relevant contexts), but we should also be aware > >> that architectures have had a flip-flop attitude in the past years. > >> Client/Server was also the apparent trend fifteen years ago, then things > >> changed, and then changed again. I would not bet a single eurocent that > >> within two years things will stay the same. > > > > > > For sure, trends come and go even in our geeky world. However, the world is > > getting more heterogeneous and I don't really see what would make the > > pendulum swing back - certainly not in two years from now. We went from > > modal applications based on 80x24 ASCII characters, to windowed desktop > > applications, to model2 browser applications and now finally to native > > mobile iOS/Android apps. With devices getting more and more diverse and > > embedded service consumption moving into printers, TV's, set-tops etc. I > > don't see the current HTML5/Ajax model (Canvas, LocalStorage, WebSockets > > etc.) going away anytime soon. And really, I doubt very many are going to > > miss Swing, Silverlight nor Flash. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Java Posse" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/2OVZw4raOOsJ. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
