Barefootery sounds good to me. I don't even own a pair of shoes. Haven't for a couple of decades now. Sandals or nothing, even shoveling snow! The only good shoes are _why Shoes!
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Leslie Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:56 AM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On the note of sandboxing, I think Chrome has made me ditch my prior >> ideas about how I want to handle security in Shoes. (Because that's >> the big problem here, not a bunch of little platform bugs.) > > > Truth. > > >> I still think Shoes is best suited to compete with GUI toolkits >> (since they are just so lousy) rather than to take on Flash. But >> once Shoes is solid, I hope to get cracking on the security stuff >> and, well, who knows what's in store after that. > > > That makes sense, but I suppose efforts such as Chrome and Adobe AIR make > me wonder what the boundarylines between "Web" and "GUI" land will be... > > Chrome seems to be fundamentally a webapp platform in its > visual/interaction design rather than mainly a 90's era browser (the ability > to create Application shortcuts, the full screen & not-really-a-status-bar > layout, and the Gears LocalCache / DB, Geolocation and Desktop file access). > AIR errs slightly more on the desktop GUI side, but interestingly embeds an > entire WebKit usable as in widgetized form. > > I guess what I'm saying is that whether GUI toolkits start embedding > WebKits (a la AIR) or Chrome and co. start embedding richer 90's era-class > GUI features (a la Silverlight), the line (between what is Web and what is > GUI) seems way blurrier than it was earlier this decade, and it just makes > me wonder what newer GUI toolkits such as Shoes should "know" or "do" about > the Web at large. > > On another note, I wonder what the party stance on barefootery is?! I've > built up enough barefoot volume over the summer to be able to hike decent > grade hills for a couple of miles barefoot, and I think my ligaments / > tendons / anterior tibialis etc. are better for it. Sometimes Shoooes are > the worst!! -- http://lwu.vox.com/library/post/dhike.html > > _whytheluckyshoes? yes! ordinary Shoooes? nooo... > > ~L >
