On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:39 -0700, Gerald Bauer wrote: > More @ > http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/FopSpeen > > What's your take on it? Is Alexander on to > something?
Is he onto something? Yes. But he's too late, and the FopSpeen solution is horrendously complex and will be very hard work to maintain with all the varying components. But he is onto something. The same thing Vexi is onto. Only Vexi is closing in on a stable release. We offer a solution "for the masses" that will work "on the computers of the masses" and will be ready in the next couple of months. All Vexi does is simple. It provides it's own widget/app building API. The core (that implements the API) is compiled into native apps for Windows, Linux, and Macs, and anything else that gets imlpemented. Then the launcher using existing browser technology to shoehorn the right core onto the client PC, and the core takes over. Since the widgets are written using the same API as apps, you can extend the widgets easily. It's flexible and powerful, and will produce apps that look and perform like their native counterparts, only aren't native. And Vexi apps will work on Windows from 95 through to Longhorn, and on Linux from 2.0 through to 2.6 on Gnome/KDE/your-DE/your-WM, on Mac OS X (no Mac OS 9 support yet), and recent flavours of Solaris. That is a solution for the masses, and it's almost ready... look out for the next release mid-to-end-July (Beta 3) that will show off support like the above. It's the last beta and Vexi will go stable soon (August or September) so be on the look out. -- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Online @ www.charlietech.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
