For out of browser apps built with open web technologies look at Titanium. http://www.appcelerator.com/
Both AIR and Titanium use WebKit to render your content, but Titanium doesn't strip out competing technologies, because the developers don't OWN any competing technologies. Titanium is free and open source. Who needs AIR? Guy On 11/11/2010, at 4:31 AM, veiko herne wrote: > Re: X. On Ubuntu 10.04, at least, SVG support is included in libwebkit which > GTK uses, although strangely I haven't been able to get SMIL animation > to work. > > Being in SVG conference in Paris on September 2010 it was confirmed that my > SVG > clips which I did in 2006 (wonderries.mobi) does yet not play right with > WebKit. > > I wonder why my clips was playing right on Nokia devices which are using > WebKit? > > In 2006 Nokia was using Real player which included Adobe SVG code. Then my > clips > played only when going to the full screen mode. > > Maybe it comes from there? Also Nokia QT toolkit specifies SVG library > separately from WebKit functions. > > > Veiko > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jacob Beard <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 6:18:19 PM > Subject: Re: [svg-developers] Adobe AIR drops SVG > > Wow, they disabled a lot of nice HTML5 features. > > A perhaps better (and open) alternative to Air may be GTK+ with embedded > Webkit. I've been playing around with it, and it's actually quite nice > and easy to work with, although I haven't tried it on Windows or Mac OS > X. On Ubuntu 10.04, at least, SVG support is included in libwebkit which > GTK uses, although strangely I haven't been able to get SMIL animation > to work. > > Also related, if you're interested in developing RIA's for GNOME, > Seedkit is worth watching, as it gives you the Webkit runtime, and > exposes native GTK and GNOME objects to the scripting environment: > http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit > > Jake > > On 10-11-10 06:06 PM, Dailey, David P. wrote: >> >> Citing the marvels of <canvas> and new CSS features, Adobe has >> disabled the SVG support in AIR. The statement is a bit odd: >> >> "a great deal of interest lately is support for SVG" >> Later >> "coupled with a trend toward reduced interest in SVG graphics" >> and finally: >> "renewed interest in rich JavaScript applications powered by HTML5 >> canvas and faster JavaScript engines increased the number of requests >> for scriptable vector graphics via SVG." >> >> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/ajax/articles/air_and_webkit.html >> >> Oneiromancy is apparently not their specialty any more. They could >> stand a tea-leaf reading lesson from the after-hours discussions at >> SVG Open I think. >> >> David >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ----Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ----Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
