I paid good money for this cool little nokia tablet and will run whatever I can get to run on it.
Javascript has a bad rap as an ugly thing used for annoying popups. It's gotten much better, especially when using APIs like dojo and jquery. If it helps: Android, iPhone, and blackberry developers can use the opensource Phonegap ( http://phonegap.com ) . It creates apps that are simply wrappers for the web browser but with a common javascript API to use the location, acclerometers, vibration, etc. Would be nice to see a maemo port of phonegap. Luis On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM , koos vriezen wrote: > 2009/1/9 Benoît HERVIER <kher...@khertan.net>: >> Hello everybody, >> >> For different reasons, i'm thinking of doing apps using Javascript >> and >> HTML. Why ? : >> >> - Portability >> - More possibility in term of design (depends of operating system) >> >> But i have many questions for you as i ve ever write something in >> javascript : >> >> - How to store and retrieve data ? I know that there is some >> possibility with some part of the specifications of HTML5. I read >> somewhere that webkit support it. >> - Does the maemo actual webkit port support this feature ? >> - Does there is python binding for webkit ? >> - I suppose that with javascript we can't access nor the filesystem, >> nor the camera, isn't it ? >> >> And the main one is about performance on an n8x0 device, do you think >> it s could be really use to make application, as when i see how many >> time required to launch browser, or simply importing gtk python >> binding, i really doubt that my idea is a great one. >> >> What do you think ? > > If I want to put scripts in a html page, I use javascript. If I want > to retrieve information out of text I use perl or sed. If I want to > write an app for maemo I use Hildon/Gtk, for Android Java and for KDE > I use Qt/kdelibs. > In short, I try to use the tools made for the job. Not that I think > that Gtk is the best solution for GUI programming, but it is on this > platforms _the_ preferred toolkit to develop against.) > So why not stick with it? > > (Btw. Gtk or Qt code should be portable to Mac or Windows platforms > and you get a fast and good resource efficient, though not smallest, > solution) > > Koos > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
