I'm in favor of options like this, but remain convinced that the more layers that appear between the ultimate end user software and the hardware, the worse performance will be. A while back I was taking the "Seaside is *not* all we need for a GUI" side of a debate and described my cash cow as "an etch-a-sketch with a type A personality" - got a good laugh when I ran across that a couple of years later. Picture users frantically banging on a tablet, selecting, poking and scribbling. Pardon my lack of vision, but there is no way in hell that HTML+CSS+JavaScript is going to keep up with it. I also have my doubts about our current vms in that respect, though Windows and its bloat would be out of the picture.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eagle Offshore Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Scamper revival Quick thought: WebKit plugin with Javascript language binding. http://webkit.org/projects/javascript/index.html Consider the kind of system you could build with html 5 rendered UI. Interesting project: http://phonegap.com Sadly, I have zero time to work on things outside of paying work these days. On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Germán Arduino wrote: > I agree with these comments (don't know if the way to go is Polymorph being > that I don't know it deeper) but as I also think that Magritte is a BIG help > to write almost any sort of applications. > > I we could have a better (more productive) way of write desktop UIs then we > can take over the win-linux.mac market :) I would try myself with my > PasswordsPro application (currently in Dolphin). It would be nice to me port > PasswordsPro to Pharo and sell it as a real desktop app (native in any > operating system) and reuse the same model to have it on web also. > > Having a only one model, with UI in desktop and web will be really awesome, > even when a lot of people may claim that is possible today, I'm not really > convinced with complex applications. > > Cheers. > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
