-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/14/10 09:20 , Moandji Ezana wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com > <mailto:phidia...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I've often thought though that we should have a context-independent > graphics toolkit. > > > While I'm not sure a context-independent graphics toolkit really > makes sense, In the past, I was convinced it made sense. After the experience of the latest years, I think it makes sense per each context, but there are contexts that are too different for it to be effective. That is: the classic desktop (Win/Linux/Mac OS X) is a context within which a context-independent graphic toolkit can work. When you come to the last generation smartphones, they have such a different paradigm that probably it's better to keep well separate the views from the model / controllers, eventually reusing the latter ones and rewriting the views ad hoc.
This for an optimal, well-integrated solution. But as I said before, sometimes you need a suboptimal solution with smaller costs and for sure being able to directly port a Swing based application would be a good thing. Also, I feel that pad-sized devices (at least the largest ones such as the iPad) are much closer to a desktop than a smartphone, and probably lots of things could be shared by a large pad and a desktop application. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyPZs4ACgkQeDweFqgUGxcqDgCfZOosiLkDcEmwiBdJUYHN4oKB +9QAoJ+z7rCy3+Qh6XakaQaQ1gEW3Ver =XG9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
