[squeak-dev] Morphic on HTML+CSS

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 12:45:16 UTC 2011


2011/6/15 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
> S, Colin Putney piše:
>
>>> In light of recent Microsoft surprising U-turn announcement [1] that in
>>> Windows 8 it swithes to HTML5 (HTML5+CSS+JavaScript) instead of .NET+WPF
>>> and Silverlight for desktop app development it is IMO a right time to
>>> think about:
>>>
>>> 1. is this a clear signal that HTML5 for ALL apps, both desktop and the
>>>   web is inevitable?
>>
>> No. Apple isn't going that way, and Microsoft is just dipping its toe
>> in the water.
>>
>>> 2. is this a clear signal that we need to rebuild Morphic on top of
>>>   HTML+CSS, to leverage all Morphic advantages and come back
>>>   to bleeding edge again?
>>
>> Dan Ingalls has done it already: http://lively-kernel.org/
>
> Lively is a project to watch and study, but Lively is JavaScript only,
> not using HTML and CSS, as far as I know.
>
> Separation of design with CSS is namely something which really raised
> the creativity fo designers on the web. This can help building better
> and nicely looking Smalltalk apps too!
>

indeed. this separation is good.
And it would be even better if you separate HTML from the web :)


> Janko
>
> --
> Janko Mivšek
> Aida/Web
> Smalltalk Web Application Server
> http://www.aidaweb.si
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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