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- ghostcool2, on 02/10/2009, -0/+6Did someone heard Firefox?
Read about XUL and Firefox user interface. A lot of JavaScript there. - zephc, on 02/10/2009, -1/+7Who here thinks desktop application programming in Javascript is a good idea? Show of hands
- ptFoe, on 02/10/2009, -1/+7Epiphany still haven't got Webkit working properly.
- geoffp, on 02/10/2009, -0/+5Personally, I think that JavaScript is one of the most underrated languages of all time. Now that I've really learned it, I find it to be immensely powerful, flexible, and expressive.
Don't like it? Just don't use it. - KibibyteBrain, on 02/10/2009, -0/+3Its not a good idea to migrate to from current desktop application programming techniques to this, but I don't think anyone is claiming it would be. It seems more of an attempt to create an easy stepping stone to let people who specialize in web design bang out desktop application ideas if they have them. That said, I'm not sure if the ends justify the means in this case as strongly as they do for cases like Adobe AIR which don't seem quite so shady.
- ldog, on 02/11/2009, -0/+2Depends on what the application is.
I wouldn't use it to write a device driver or the latest 3d game engine.
But it's no worse than any other scripting language for extensions to other applications.
One thing I like about it over other scripting languages like Lua is the relatively similar syntax to C and Java. - GhostFreeman, on 02/10/2009, -2/+3Definitely not me. Prototype-driven OOP drives me NUTS.
- SyntraFTW, on 02/10/2009, -0/+16 comments on the front page. Wow.
- shinkou, on 02/12/2009, -0/+1@mickstephenson
I don't have the exact figures for evidence, but the conclusion that gtk is losing to Qt could be generalized by the fact that fewer and fewer projects are developed based on gtk. To make it more obvious, Nokia has picked Qt instead of gtk as its official UI library and in consequence, the number of Qt applications and users will skyrocket. As a developer, if I were going to start a new project to make a GUI application, I would have chosen Qt without any doubt because of gtk's lack of documentations.
They have been talking about the gtk-css-engine for some time, but I don't think it would help people developing real gtk-based software. Besides, depending on who/what will be given the permission to use/change the CSS definitions (i.e. how they're going to bind it), there could be some never-before-seen security issues too. Just imagine that all the buttons on your screen suddenly shrink to 1x1 pixels when you're surfing on the web, it will be a big mess.
IMO, the gtk team should not be distracted to things that hardcore developers don't really care about for the time being. They should have improved the core functionality and documentations instead. - mickstephenson, on 02/12/2009, -0/+1Evidence Gnome is losing market share to KDE please?
I would assume gnome has been making a net gain considering Ubuntu has gnome as default and is number one on distrowatch.
Admittedly though, considering most web searches Kubuntu users do will actually just search for Ubuntu it's a poor measure.
Oh and back on topic if Javascript in the OS makes you balk, you'll love this. Did you know that they are developing a CSS gtk-engine? - Vadi0, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1Great stuff. Web devs are already at home making iphone and android apps, now they'll be at home making linux apps.
- shinkou, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1This is definitely another example of "what we can do doesn't mean we should". I can understand that the Gnome people are trying hard to win some market share back from KDE/Qt, but it seems they're loosing their minds on this.
- kahn2001, on 02/12/2009, -0/+0maybe just for web apps
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -8/+1Buried, big time!
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