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One of the things I don't like about prism over AIR is that it doesn't allow you to use free form shapes for your widget. It's basically just another window.
by theschwa 17y ago
One of the things I don't like about prism over AIR is that it doesn't allow you to use free form shapes for your widget. It's basically just another window. That may seem like a silly complaint, but I really enjoy the aesthetics that it allows.
- pieter 17y agoThat's one of the reasons I don't use AIR. It's the stuff as 20 years ago, with windows with all forms and sizes, and weird black buttons. I know it's hard to build cross-platform stuff, and stuff that tries to look native (Java/Swing, Qt) also fails horribly, but stuff like AIR makes me cringe when I can't use command-a, or control-a/e. I think browsers are relatively good in that regard; at least in Safari I can use all my common shortcuts, even if the web page is created on windows/linux. That sounds logical, but is a huge difference with things like Java, QT, Gtk+, AIR or Silverlight.