l, Your rhetoric is soaring so high I can't understand a word of it. What is it you want? Can you use plain English?
Walden On Oct 16, 4:39 pm, lkcl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > folks, hi, > > as you've no doubt seen, i mentioned in the announcement of pyjamas > 0.3 that there's a parallel project, pyjamas-desktop, which is a port > of pyjamas to run as a desktop widget set and framework. it works ... > incredibly well, thanks to webkit. > > the way it's done is by some glib / gobject bindings onto webkit. > this non-trivial bit of work resulted in being able to manipulate the > DOM model in an identical - and i do literally mean function-for- > function, concept-for-concept, property-for-property, attribute-for- > attribute and object-for-object identical - fashion to that which you > would "normally" use javascript for. > > over 300 glib objects are auto-generated, and over 1,500 "gdom" > functions are auto-generated (thank god. it'd be madness to write > them by hand) from the webkit IDL files, and, once the API was > available, thanks to the auto-generator, it was - incredibly - a > matter of 4-5 days for a port of pyjamas to the desktop to be > completed. > > the nice thing about the glib bindings to webkit is that they're in c, > and there are as many "interface generators" to wrap glib objects to > other programming languages as there are major programming languages. > > .... oh look, here's a screenshot of someone who is advocating the > java gobject bindings, and _guess_ what example they're showing? > webkit!! > http://picasaweb.google.com/cgwalters/Screenshots#5230352024470678530 > http://java-gnome.sf.net/2.x > http://live.gnome.org/JGIR/SampleCode > > so. i have a question for you. > > with webkit providing literally _perfect_ corresponding functionality > to that which is provided by a web browser, and with the shiny new > webkit-glib bindings sparkling and glittering in that magpie- > attractive fashion, _and_ with pyjamas-desktop showing that it's > perfectly feasible, what's to stop the GWT Widget set from becoming a > cross-browser _and_ cross desktop widget set and framework? > > l. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
