Tying together a hacked together language with HTML doesn't make for the greatest programming experience. Especially compared to any real GUI framework. ...
What I would love to see is a standard *real* GUI for the web that is non-language dependent (i.e. whatever scripting language you prefer you can use). I'd even use something like Jython with newer/better GUI libraries. But we really need something written from the ground up with GUI in mind.
You should take a look at ThinWire, which is a *real* GUI framework for the web. It allows the developer to create a web application using the same paradigm as desktop application development. It is written in Java, and therefore you can code in any scripting language that runs on the JVM.
This is an impressive toolkit and a nice approach, but Google is not the first to do this. Has anyone heard of ThinWire (http://www.thinwire.com/)? There are already production applications in place built on this framework.
Yes, we must all pat Microsoft on the back for re-innovating an old technology that failed 5 years ago to restrict consumers abilities. But couldn't there be a better way? If only there was some means of distribution to send out Movies to consumers that restricted their ablilty to re-distribute and cost roughly the same as a rental.
Oh yeah, it's called pay-per-view. It's as old as cable television. $3 - $4 to watch a movie (record with TiVo or some other recorder if you want, quality won't be the same as DVD rip), and no discs to dispose of, no special players to force on the market. Maybe Microsoft will re-invent this after their new Divx fails.
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This is an impressive toolkit and a nice approach, but Google is not the first to do this. Has anyone heard of ThinWire (http://www.thinwire.com/)? There are already production applications in place built on this framework.
Yes, we must all pat Microsoft on the back for re-innovating an old technology that failed 5 years ago to restrict consumers abilities. But couldn't there be a better way? If only there was some means of distribution to send out Movies to consumers that restricted their ablilty to re-distribute and cost roughly the same as a rental.
Oh yeah, it's called pay-per-view. It's as old as cable television. $3 - $4 to watch a movie (record with TiVo or some other recorder if you want, quality won't be the same as DVD rip), and no discs to dispose of, no special players to force on the market. Maybe Microsoft will re-invent this after their new Divx fails.