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Hey, what about Adobe AIR?! You get two toolkits for free -- standard HTML and you also get Flash/Flex. (BTW, if you want to hack apps that look like true cli
by bprater 18y ago
Hey, what about Adobe AIR?!
You get two toolkits for free -- standard HTML and you also get Flash/Flex.
(BTW, if you want to hack apps that look like true client-side app in HTML, check out the ExtJS kit. Amazing stuff. Well thought-out JS.)
- omouse 18y agoAdobe AIR is proprietary. You could also use JavaFX or plain old Java. It's under a GPLv2 or CDDL license. (Some people care about free software, others don't. Just thought I'd mention an alternative)
- tlrobinson 18y agohttp://titaniumapp.com/ http://titaniumapp.com/ if you want an open source AIR equivalent. It's a work in progress but seems promising.
- marketer 18y agoActually, the flash platform is largely open source. The AIR framework (along with the rest of Flex) is open source. See http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Get+Source+Code http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Get+Source+... The AIR compiler is also open source. The only thing that isn't open source in the stack is the flash player runtime, which executes the resulting SWF file. However, the SWF file format is open.
- nailer 18y agoIf the VM - the most critical part of the platform - is proprietary, then the platform isn't largely Open Source.
- halo 18y agoGreat if you want an application to look like a web app, but it's not an ideal solution by any stretch.
- michaelneale 18y agoalso http://cappuccino.org/ http://cappuccino.org/
- thomasmallen 18y agoEr, that's JavaScript and only runs in the browser. The toolkits we're discussing are concerned with desktop apps.
- michaelneale 18y agoWell the parent mentioned extjs, which is javascript and only runs in the browser. And you can run both (last I checked) in AIR as AIR contains WebKit.