In case you'd like to have a last chance at the Arkyd kickstarter .. to
send an educational space telescope into orbit .. they are allowing further
pledges even tho they successfully met their target. Amazingly, they are
apparently among the 25 top kickstarters to date.
-- Owen
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Dear Gillian,
I started in Bhutan, then Oslo, then Stockholm (all work-related so I
really needed my bag to arrive!), and now I'm in the Minneapolis airport on
my last leg home to Santa Fe. Piece of cake! Trick is to pack lightly
(you'll need a raincoat in Seattle) and if you're going to check
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I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local
medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich
internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like
it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop
One thing to consider is mobile .. i.e. do you want this to work across a
wide range of devices: phones, tablets, laptops etc. If so, you'll need to
consider various options for responsive design, .. i.e a design that
automatically adjusts to the device and its screen size. Ditto for touch
vs
With Javascript, you have the DOM built in. Which means your GUI
elements are all the stuff available in HTML (eg HTML5 canvas), but
dynamically driven from Javascript.
The only slight gotcha is that browsers tend to implement slightly
incompatible versions of HTML, so lots of testing is needed.
Then you might consider who's going to maintain it when your not
available and what level of skill may be needed. Esoteric and cool
is... well esoteric and cool. Pragmatic and well worn and well known
might lead you to consider more mundane but well used tools especially
on the server side
