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HMMM Just thinking... what if Linux distros used HTML5/Javascript for a GUI Desktop Shell (Like Windows 8)? What if it became a true cross-platform development
by timinman 15y ago
HMMM Just thinking... what if Linux distros used HTML5/Javascript for a GUI Desktop Shell (Like Windows 8)? What if it became a true cross-platform development environment?
- rbanffy 15y agoThat's exactly why W8 will certainly have lots of proprietary objects you'll need to call in order to do anything useful.
- Revisor 15y agoFor incompatibilities there would/will quickly rise frameworks that abstract you from them.
- rbanffy 15y agoFair enough. They'll have to devise a better strategy to prevent that
- timinman 15y agoThat's fair enough considering Internet Explorer, but there are some counterpoints to consider: (1) If you watch the MS promotional video, attracting a wide range of developers is a stated goal of using HTML5; it would be counterproductive to that goal to add lots of proprietary code. (2) It would be easier to stick with the status quo than to recreate HTML5.
- rbanffy 15y agoTheir goal is to protect Windows from the competition. Providing proprietary hooks that cannot be easily duplicated elsewhere is their most likely strategy.
- timinman 15y ago'Not sure why I mentioned Linux and not OSX, possibly because I was jumping ahead to wonder if this could solve the Gnome/KDE/Unity debate (but who am I kidding?)
- bergie 15y agoGNOME Shell (GNOME3 desktop) is already written in JavaScript: https://live.gnome.org/Gjs https://live.gnome.org/Gjs
- glassx 15y agoI asked myself the same, lol, OSX is lagging behind when it comes to accepting HTML/CSS/JS as a first class app environment... Except for Dashboard Widgets, of course.