[maemo-developers] Making Javascript Application embedded in a small gtk window.

[From: monteslu at cox.net]

I paid good money for this cool little nokia tablet and will run 
whatever I can get to run on it.


Javascript has a bad rap as an ugly thing used for annoying popups. It's 
gotten much better, especially when using APIs like dojo and jquery.

If it helps:
Android, iPhone, and blackberry developers can use the opensource 
Phonegap ( http://phonegap.com ) .  It creates apps that are simply 
wrappers for the web browser but with a common javascript API to use the 
location, acclerometers,  vibration, etc.

Would be nice to see a maemo port of phonegap.

Luis



On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM , koos vriezen wrote:

> 2009/1/9 Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net>:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> For different reasons, i'm thinking of doing apps using Javascript 
>> and
>> HTML. Why ? :
>>
>> - Portability
>> - More possibility in term of design (depends of operating system)
>>
>> But i have many questions for you as i ve ever write something in 
>> javascript :
>>
>> - How to store and retrieve data ? I know that there is some
>> possibility with some part of the specifications of HTML5. I read
>> somewhere that webkit support it.
>> - Does the maemo actual webkit port support this feature ?
>> - Does there is python binding for webkit ?
>> - I suppose that with javascript we can't access nor the filesystem,
>> nor the camera, isn't it ?
>>
>> And the main one is about performance on an n8x0 device, do you think
>> it s could be really use to make application, as when i see how many
>> time required to launch browser, or simply importing gtk python
>> binding, i really doubt that my idea is a great one.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>
> If I want to put scripts in a html page, I use javascript. If I want
> to retrieve information out of text I use perl or sed. If I want to
> write an app for maemo I use Hildon/Gtk, for Android Java and for KDE
> I use Qt/kdelibs.
> In short, I try to use the tools made for the job. Not that I think
> that Gtk is the best solution for GUI programming, but it is on this
> platforms _the_ preferred toolkit to develop against.)
> So why not stick with it?
>
> (Btw. Gtk or Qt code should be portable to Mac or Windows platforms
> and you get a fast and good resource efficient, though not smallest,
> solution)
>
> Koos
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