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Sitting next to the developer of MacGap (we both work at Twitter), the first thing that I asked was "what about Fluid?" http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com

Sitting next to the developer of MacGap (we both work at Twitter), the first thing that I asked was "what about Fluid?" http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ -- and Alex's first retort was that this was open source, and free.

tlrobinson 15y ago
"MacGap was forked/ported from Phonegap-mac. It's under the same license (MIT)." I'm more curious why he forked Phonegap-mac?
- maccman 15y ago
  It's a good point, but I felt that it was enough of a code change to fork - and callback-mac wasn't getting that much love (or accepting pull requests). However, it may be that that project gets merged back in, as I might be made the official maintainer.
  - 18pfsmt 15y ago
    I'm curious why Mozilla's Prism (XUL Runner) wouldn't be a candidate for forking in a project like this since it would allow for cross-platform (Windows/ Linux support)?
tvon 15y ago
Fluid is just a browser that opens to a specific URL, there is no way to distribute with it (aside from just publishing a webapp).
- pudquick 15y ago
  Actually, back in the pre-1.0 versions, you could. See the archived changelog here: http://www.myosxfreeware.com/fluid-04/ http://www.myosxfreeware.com/fluid-04/ Specifically "FluidInstance.app: SSBs can now run local Ruby on Rails webapps." There used to be a way to package up a RoR app inside the application contents and distribute that as your app. No need for an actual hosted website. However - the feature was poorly documented and never really taken advantage of. Since they went 1.0, I believe it's also been removed.
switz 15y ago
Fluid is great, but can be verrrrrrry buggy. I know the developer that makes it, and he's a great guy. I've been waiting for someone to put out a more solid replacement and hopefully this is it.
- c_t_montgomery 15y ago
  Raven isn't bad - some prefer it over Fluid. I don't, but I still think it's a solid replacement. http://raven.io/ http://raven.io/
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tlrobinson 15y ago

"MacGap was forked/ported from Phonegap-mac. It's under the same license (MIT)." I'm more curious why he forked Phonegap-mac?

maccman 15y ago
It's a good point, but I felt that it was enough of a code change to fork - and callback-mac wasn't getting that much love (or accepting pull requests). However, it may be that that project gets merged back in, as I might be made the official maintainer.
- 18pfsmt 15y ago
  I'm curious why Mozilla's Prism (XUL Runner) wouldn't be a candidate for forking in a project like this since it would allow for cross-platform (Windows/ Linux support)?

tvon 15y ago

Fluid is just a browser that opens to a specific URL, there is no way to distribute with it (aside from just publishing a webapp).

pudquick 15y ago
Actually, back in the pre-1.0 versions, you could. See the archived changelog here: http://www.myosxfreeware.com/fluid-04/ http://www.myosxfreeware.com/fluid-04/ Specifically "FluidInstance.app: SSBs can now run local Ruby on Rails webapps." There used to be a way to package up a RoR app inside the application contents and distribute that as your app. No need for an actual hosted website. However - the feature was poorly documented and never really taken advantage of. Since they went 1.0, I believe it's also been removed.

switz 15y ago

Fluid is great, but can be verrrrrrry buggy. I know the developer that makes it, and he's a great guy. I've been waiting for someone to put out a more solid replacement and hopefully this is it.

c_t_montgomery 15y ago
Raven isn't bad - some prefer it over Fluid. I don't, but I still think it's a solid replacement. http://raven.io/ http://raven.io/

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