Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X

An anonymous reader writes to let us know about an article in RegDeveloper detailing the use of Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform C++ toolkit, for development across Windows and Mac OS X. From the article: "QT not only goes across desktops but onto embedded devices as well. So any app you write with Qt will port to an embedded device with a frame buffer running Trolltech's embedded version of QT, called QtopiaCore."

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Re:Used it, loved it.

[TemporalBeing]

Nowadays we're using Flash for the win/osx cross platform development. Big things are starting to come in that front.

Glad you like to alienate your users that require 508 compliance (US - don't know what it would be referred to for other countries). Flash may give you a little bit of cross-platform, but it requires one to use the mouse, and basically forbids use of (i) keyboard navigation, and things like (ii) screen readers, which are very important for certain groups. Any company that wants to do a good, capable product - web or otherwise - would be concerned with 508 compliance, and Flash does not provide that.

I've heard that the folks behind Flash are looking at 508 compliance, but I do not see that any time soon. And that is more or less rumor mill, so who knows if they actually are.

Me - I'll still to using Qt and like technologies as I can get my 508 compliance easily enough.