In all fairness to both projects, it's probably more fair to say the difference is in project scope, not in code complexity. Talking about complexity is a little silly here, anyway. I mean, you're already good for several hundred thousand lines of code once you have node + v8 + chrome included in both these cases. 2ยข
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 3:58:13 PM UTC-5, hij1nx wrote: > > Sounds like you have a specific use case/requirement, use the tool thats > right for you :) > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, mgutz <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> When someone says "The difference is several thousand lines of code -- in >> fact its about 30 lines of code, there's no special APIs, no configuration >> files, builds or hacks." Really!? OK, do something trivial like open a file >> with native file dialog, modify the buffer then save the file back. Oops, >> where's the real path? App is running in the browser's sandbox. >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:20:48 AM UTC-8, Luke Arduini wrote: >> >>> Perhaps oversimplification to one person is optimalsimplification to >>> another. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:16 PM, mgutz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> They're not the same, which is why I said he's oversimplifying what >>>> node-webkit does. This is basically chrome in application mode talking to >>>> an http server. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:20:23 AM UTC-8, psema4 wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM, mgutz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > On Monday, February 4, 2013 1:04:26 PM UTC-8, hij1nx wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> node-chrome(3) >>>>> >> A tiny module for building desktop apps. It's really simple and >>>>> uses the >>>>> >> chrome runtime. >>>>> <snip> >>>>> > How does this compare to node-webkit or appjs? >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> I'm also curious about this. The projects' LoC has absolutely no >>>>> bearing on whether or not I'll find it useful. >>>>> >>>>> Over the last few months I've been becoming ever more enamored with >>>>> node-webkit. In the readme, the description is nearly as short as the >>>>> synopsis and doesn't really add any extra information. >>>>> >>>>> I'm just not sure why I'd want to spend time investigating >>>>> node-chrome. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Scott Elcomb >>>>> @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more >>>>> >>>>> Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems >>>>> http://code.google.com/p/**atomo**s/<http://code.google.com/p/atomos/> >>>>> >>>>> Member of the Pirate Party of Canada >>>>> http://www.pirateparty.ca/ >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List- >>>> **Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> For more options, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > -- > Paolo Fragomeni > Founder, @Oqulr > github.com/hij1nx > twitter.com/hij1nx > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
