On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Christoph Wysseier wrote: > Dear Stef > > Am 22.02.12 08:32, schrieb 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.
we will see :) I do not have a crystal ball either. Now I can tell you that I'm in contact with a serious company and we are about to release a product on iPad and iPhone in C++ and they do not want to write it in web-based. > 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. Now when genie was added to squeak is was a hack because the event loop was not pluggable. Now if people (not me) want to use pharo to build strange interactive devices (again they have to hack to death the system), if hilaire wants to have DrGeo on iPad, same for Fernando with alternate desktop or android desktop. So if we want to give a chance to people to build their own future then we should get a nice infrastructure. > Or did I misinterpret your intention? > > Cheers, > > Chris >
