Re: [backstage] "free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight"

2009-02-01 Thread Andy
2009/2/1 Ant Miller : > based on google webkit, pyjamas is a cross-browser _web_ application > development API. > /Quote Probably a typo, It means Google Web Toolkit, http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ (which is where the words "Google webkit" links to), licensed under Apache License 2.0, third pa

Re: [backstage] "free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight"

2009-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
Eh? Oops, sorry. I was getting that info from the Advogato: Pyjamas page here: http://www.advogato.org/article/981.html Quote: *who - bbb..back up a bit: what's pyjamas? based on google webkit, pyjamas is a cross-browser _web_ application development API.* /Quote Confused now... a On Su

Re: [backstage] "free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight"

2009-02-01 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 1 Feb 2009, at 11:23, Ant Miller wrote: But forgive my utter ignorance, but since there is a layer of Google Web Kit underpinning this, doesn't that make it's "openess" a bit less "open"? errr WebKit is not a Google engine - it has been open sourced out of Apple, having come out of KHTM

Re: [backstage] "free software from ground up home-grown alternative to AIR/Silverlight"

2009-02-01 Thread Ant Miller
That sounds great- it's been troubling me for a while that the shift into rich web apps seems to have been tied to a couple of proprietary platforms. But forgive my utter ignorance, but since there is a layer of Google Web Kit underpinning this, doesn't that make it's "openess" a bit less "open"?