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Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 Editor From IBM

Posted by timothy on from the so-there-would-be-these-images dept.

PybusJ writes "IBM has released an online HTML5 editing tool called Maqetta, hosted by the Dojo Foundation. eWeek calls it an open source answer to Flash and Silverlight. That remains to be seen, but it does look interesting."

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  1. Re:HTML5 != Flash/Silverlight by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Silverlight doesn't work on Linux. Which means they can add features like crazy, I'm still not interested.

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  2. Re:HTML5 != Flash/Silverlight by dkf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, what can you not do with HTML5 that you can do with Flash / Silverlight?

    With HTML5, you can't lock yourself in to a big corporation's strategy for hating users in various ways.

    Damn you HTML5 for making things open!!! :-)

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