S, Christoph Wysseier piše: > Stéphane Ducasse:
>> I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and >> others works (for iPad = $$$$) is important. > Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets > and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be > far more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies > also in this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own > strategy I do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for > the development of such applications. I agree completely that web based techologies are where we should go because we have advantage here with Smalltalk while for any kind of GUI we are off. Including for mobile apps. Making a web app and package it as a standalone mobile app is much easier than making any decently looking GUI app with Pharo. Adding only multitouch is not enough, entire look&feel is what counts. And I don't see a change to better in near future on GUI field. It is better to concentrate improving Look&Feel (User Experience) of development tools and overal stability of Pharo including fundamental redesign of internals, those which cause instabilities. To prepare Pharo for server based deployments and for web services of different kinds, from web apps to REST API services. And a work the Gemstone/VMware guys are doing adding Smalltalk to Cloud Foudry [1] is what we should support as much as possible, this is the future. [1] Adding Smalltalk to Cloud Foundry http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/adding-smalltalk-to-cloud-foundry/ Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si
