And Matt Drance take :

        http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/10/22/java

> SJ Speaks:
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> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/frasers/5104179782/>
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> On 2010-10-22, at 7:29 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> 
>> I am not advocating anything since I only develop one browser GUI for 
>> web-based apps myself. However I am stating an opinion that the platforms 
>> are diverging at a rate where "in my opinion" (and that is all it is) a 
>> cross-development GUI tool will have difficulty in being ideal and/or 
>> perfect on every platform. For example, are Apple's Human Interface 
>> guidelines identical to Microsoft's, Ubuntu and RHEL? Even at that, we have 
>> new form factors and input devices adding further divergence to interface 
>> interaction (iPad, touch-pad laptops etc.).
>> 
>> Personally I only need server side java for web-based apps. Ideally I want 
>> my development tools to run on Mac because that is my platform of choice. As 
>> long as I have a WO-compatible JVM on OS X, and I can run my development 
>> tools on OS X, I will, but if the sky fell down tomorrow and I had to use 
>> Parallels and a Linux VM to run Eclipse and get my WO-dev job done, I would. 
>> Life goes on.... 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
>> 
>>> I cannot believe that a developper advocates doing three times (MacOS, 
>>> Windows, Linux) the same boring UI job...
>>> 
>>> Le 22 oct. 2010 à 04:37, [email protected] a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Cross-platform development GUIs, IMHO, can never offer true fidelity on 
>>>> any one platform. They will mostly achieve an inferior subset of 
>>>> functionality at best, and possibly only look good on the platform to 
>>>> which they have been biased from the start. This is especially true as the 
>>>> gap widens between advancing high-tech operating systems such as OS X and 
>>>> would-they-ever-give-up-and-go-home-with-their-junk operating systems such 
>>>> as Winblows.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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