> On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 11:53 -0800, Iain Duncan wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Stefano D'Angelo >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2011/11/19 David Robillard <[email protected]>: > [...] >> > Writing one UI that works on all reasonable devices for free >> with zero >> > software installation? Free "remote control" with any PC or >> tablet or >> > phone with wifi? Yes please. Whatever cons there are, they >> don't even >> > come close to trumping that very tangible user-visible win. >> >> >> >> Hmm, I'd have to say though, as someone who does RIA apps for a >> living, (mostly in Python + Dojo and JQuery) it's still a freaking >> pain. Compared to using PyQT or PyWx, all of the javascript widget >> libraries still really hurt. Mind you, I'm sure that will change. >> Probably in less than a few years too! > > Yeah, it's moving extremely fast. Frankly you have to be pretty blind > or stubborn to not realize that web tech is by far the safest UI > investment at this point. > > That said, making something work in a browser is, at least for me (and > presumably many around here), dramatically less of a pain than having to > deal with Windows and Mac OS X directly. > > There is, of course, the option of simply not caring about other > platforms and the irrelevance that comes with it, but the dramatically > increased user base is nice for those of us that desperately cling to > fantasies about getting enough donation money to survive off this libre > audio software thing :) > > Given how easily and nicely you can stick webkit in anything these days, > nobody even has to know it's actually HTML under the hood anyway (though > for audio purposes, the remote control via tablet thing is too awesome > to not want to provide to people) > >> What I'd like to see is something that fills the same role as the >> browser, but is a clean break from the sorry cludgey state of >> javascript. I'm sure the Android guys are on it though, so I'd agree >> it's likely the path of the future. Maybe we will at last see the >> arrival of the universal appliance platform that java was supposed to >> give us 20 years ago? ;-) > > Indeed. Like it or not, that's what the browser is finally becoming. > > I wish the language was a bit less insane (I never look forward to the > nightmare of developing in anything without a decent type system), but > oh well. See above about user tangibles trumping petty developer > gripes. > > -dr
I realize this question might be provokative, but I've never seen this comparison before and am genuinely interested in your opinion. Both java and browser/JS are cross platform. Both are available on almost every device out there. Why is browser/JS the way to go? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
