S, Colin Putney piše: >> In light of recent Microsoft surprising U-turn announcement [1] that in >> Windows 8 it swithes to HTML5 (HTML5+CSS+JavaScript) instead of .NET+WPF >> and Silverlight for desktop app development it is IMO a right time to >> think about: >> >> 1. is this a clear signal that HTML5 for ALL apps, both desktop and the >> web is inevitable? > > No. Apple isn't going that way, and Microsoft is just dipping its toe > in the water. > >> 2. is this a clear signal that we need to rebuild Morphic on top of >> HTML+CSS, to leverage all Morphic advantages and come back >> to bleeding edge again? > > Dan Ingalls has done it already: http://lively-kernel.org/
Lively is a project to watch and study, but Lively is JavaScript only, not using HTML and CSS, as far as I know. Separation of design with CSS is namely something which really raised the creativity fo designers on the web. This can help building better and nicely looking Smalltalk apps too! Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si
