Webkit came about like this. KDE, who make a Linux desktop environment complete with office apps etc, developed a rendering engine as the basis for their browser, called Konqueror. It was open source.. Apple then took this rendering engine and made it the basis of Safari. There was tooing and froing about whether Apple was passing its enhancements back, this was eventually more or less resolved, and Webkit is now both the basis for Safari and for open source browsers. Which would include Midori, Chrome, Konqueror, and even the Gnome browser, Galeon.
Now, what can you do as a Windows user? if I understand it properly, you can write Rodeo pages in Windows as long as you use a webkit based browser to connect to the online authoring tool. This does not include Explorer or Firefox, but there is no shortage. This would apply to Linux too. You cannot use the Mac based editor which Sarah has written, unless you either buy yourself a Mac or make yourself a hackintosh. Which is pretty easy to do, not that I have any interest in doing it other than the intellectual challenge maybe, but there are too many of those already. But you can still write Rodeo apps. You can then connect to those web pages with any webkit based browser from any OS. So its not really mac-centric, and not even Rev centric, if I have understood it properly. They will shortly introduce the ability to run those pages on your own web server, again through a webkit based browser. You should also be able to write web apps that run from your own device, again once they implement the ability to run from any web server. Correct me if wrong on this very last point? The hope and belief is that this means that you can write apps for the iPhone and iPad. Because you are targeting abilities built into the browser, and you do not need to go through Apple's app store to get them to the public. Apple can no longer tell you and your buyers that swimsuit photos are politically incorrect this year. Will it work, and is it interesting? Yes on the last count. Someone asks to what extent this allows you to port all the functionality of a Rev app to the web. This is something I am not clear about, and it would be nice to know. It is letting you compose apps within the limits of the webkit engine. It is also letting you translate the gui part of a Rev app into standard web pages. But it does not seem to be porting the whole application to a web site, not even a webkit one. Its doing part of that, and delivering part of the functionality of the app. If you want the guts of the thing, you write the rest of it in the Rodeo editor. Is that pretty much right? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Rodeo-Still-waiting-for-the-aha-moment-tp2297501p2297744.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
