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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. Holy fuck. It makes Eclipse and VS feel fast. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good gosh, this thing actually makes Eclipse, NetBeans and Visual Studio feel fast and efficient.

  2. Re:HTML5 != Flash/Silverlight by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It would help if you could give some specifics. 'A dedicated sandbox' is a pretty meaningless thing, since all JavaScript does run in a dedicated sandbox. Some of the things HTML5 can do:
    • OpenGL ES via WebGL.
    • 2D vector art, either immediate mode via canvas tags or scene graphs via SVG.
    • Audio and video playback, via (scriptable) audio and video tags.
    • Get network data without going through HTTP via WebSocket.

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

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