Re: [nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-21 Thread henrik
*QT seems so last decade.* Man. You just made me feel old. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups nodejs group. To post to this

Re: [nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-21 Thread Srirangan
Why are Webkit / HTML5 based desktop apps discouraged? I opted for Python + Webkit and everything has been really smooth so far! - Sri Srirangan | +91 9711 477 595 | About http://srirangan.net/about GitHub https://github.com/Srirangan LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/srirangan Twitter

[nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-20 Thread George Shank
IMHO I think we shouldn't spend too much effort getting WebKit on the desktop. HTML and CSS are not my favorite way of laying things out (although I do understand the speed web developers could gain with building desktop apps). What Node needs is a shoes-like framework, possibly built on top

Re: [nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-20 Thread Dick Hardt
Agree that getting WebKit as a separate module on the desktop is alot of work. Why not wrap the HTML render engine (IE on Windows, webkit on OS X) on the platform with an API? Web devs are already familiar with dealing with different layout engines. More and more development is moving to HTML /

[nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-20 Thread mscdex
On Jun 20, 6:44 pm, Dick Hardt dick.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Why not wrap the HTML render engine (IE on Windows, webkit on OS X) on the platform with an API? Web devs are already familiar with dealing with different layout engines. -100 Just because we deal with it on the web does not mean we

[nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-19 Thread henrik
I haven't tried it myself, but https://github.com/arturadib/node-qt looks interesting. Henrik On Monday, June 18, 2012 1:40:32 AM UTC-7, Sri wrote: Had a quick look at node-webkit. Last commit, three months ago (at least on master branch). Any ideas which is the most popular library for

[nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-19 Thread sahal
AppJS uses CEF. All others use webkit one way or another. I'm just saying the HTML5 APIs change at such a rate you'll have one hell of a time keeping up. I spammed crbug a while back to ask about an --embeddable flag here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132455 maybe I'm not

[nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-18 Thread Srirangan
Okay, just discovered AppJS http://appjs.org/ On Monday, June 18, 2012, Srirangan wrote: Had a quick look at node-webkit. Last commit, three months ago (at least on master branch). Any ideas which is the most popular library for desktop app development? Thanks, Sri -- Srirangan |

Re: [nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-18 Thread 梁辰晔
cool, but fail to run the app on linux. 2012/6/18 Srirangan sriran...@gmail.com Okay, just discovered AppJS http://appjs.org/ On Monday, June 18, 2012, Srirangan wrote: Had a quick look at node-webkit. Last commit, three months ago (at least on master branch). Any ideas which is the

Re: [nodejs] Re: Desktop apps with Node.js

2012-06-18 Thread 梁辰晔
install -g failed, but git clone and built on that dir success very coll ! 2012/6/18 梁辰晔 liangche...@gmail.com cool, but fail to run the app on linux. 2012/6/18 Srirangan sriran...@gmail.com Okay, just discovered AppJS http://appjs.org/ On Monday, June 18, 2012, Srirangan wrote: Had