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

[From: koos vriezen]

2009/1/9 Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net>:
> Why ? don't know ... just though ...
>
> For simple apps, like tasks or some pims ... it can be done easily
> with a nice ui in js ...
>
> And yep, HTML was document oriented, HTLM5 is no more that, it s
> mainly a Application Oriented Language. HTML5 is made for offline and
> online apps. This is why i say... : maybe it could be interesting.
>
> And when i was talking about other device it was mainly other mobile
> device :) like Palm WebOS or iPhone which use WebKit also. But it
> seems that the iPhone don't have the HTML5 part of Webkit right now.

Aren't this two kinds of JavaScript? Ie. js as binding to the platform
and js inside a html page where among others, security considerations
limits its scope.
For what I know, script binding currently are more or less just
wrapping a specific toolkit so that doesn't bring much for
portability. Would indeed be nice to have a toolkit independent spec,
like eg. AWT for Java.
Since Palm already has something, might be worth taking a look in how
far it can be implemented on Maemo.

Koos
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> 2009/1/9 koos vriezen <koos.vriezen at gmail.com>:
>> 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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