2011/6/15 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek@eranova.si>:
S, Colin Putney piše:
In light of recent Microsoft surprising U-turn announcement [1] that in Windows 8 it swithes to HTML5 (HTML5+CSS+JavaScript) instead of .NET+WPF and Silverlight for desktop app development it is IMO a right time to think about:
1. is this a clear signal that HTML5 for ALL apps, both desktop and the  web is inevitable?
No. Apple isn't going that way, and Microsoft is just dipping its toe in the water.
2. is this a clear signal that we need to rebuild Morphic on top of  HTML+CSS, to leverage all Morphic advantages and come back  to bleeding edge again?
Dan Ingalls has done it already: http://lively-kernel.org/
Lively is a project to watch and study, but Lively is JavaScript only, not using HTML and CSS, as far as I know.
Separation of design with CSS is namely something which really raised the creativity fo designers on the web. This can help building better and nicely looking Smalltalk apps too!
indeed. this separation is good. And it would be even better if you separate HTML from the web :)
Janko
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