I'm in favor of options like this, but remain convinced that the more layers that appear between the ultimate end user software and the hardware, the worse performance will be. A while back I was taking the "Seaside is *not* all we need for a GUI" side of a debate and described my cash cow as "an etch-a-sketch with a type A personality" - got a good laugh when I ran across that a couple of years later. Picture users frantically banging on a tablet, selecting, poking and scribbling. Pardon my lack of vision, but there is no way in hell that HTML+CSS+JavaScript is going to keep up with it. I also have my doubts about our current vms in that respect, though Windows and its bloat would be out of the picture. Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Eagle Offshore Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:48 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Scamper revival Quick thought: WebKit plugin with Javascript language binding. http://webkit.org/projects/javascript/index.html Consider the kind of system you could build with html 5 rendered UI. Interesting project: http://phonegap.com Sadly, I have zero time to work on things outside of paying work these days. On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Germán Arduino wrote:
I agree with these comments (don't know if the way to go is Polymorph being that I don't know it deeper) but as I also think that Magritte is a BIG help to write almost any sort of applications.
I we could have a better (more productive) way of write desktop UIs then we can take over the win-linux.mac market :) I would try myself with my PasswordsPro application (currently in Dolphin). It would be nice to me port PasswordsPro to Pharo and sell it as a real desktop app (native in any operating system) and reuse the same model to have it on web also.
Having a only one model, with UI in desktop and web will be really awesome, even when a lot of people may claim that is possible today, I'm not really convinced with complex applications.
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