+1 On 1/17/2013 1:50 PM, Jason H wrote: > What is the "web" you speak of? LOL > > Anyway, that [zero-install] is definitely a legitimate issue. However I have > to puke and kick a puppy when it comes to overall web development. We were > approaching something really good with Java and .NET, but these got > sidelined by a handful of easy-to-implement standards that now requires you > to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: HTML, JS, CSS, MIME, > SQL, .NET or Java or PHP, not to mention Linux/IIS server administration. > > The reason I puke is the number of standards you have to be famialr with. > The reason I kick the puppy is this cannot be the best paradigm software > development can have. It is an organic evolution of indepenendt technologies > that don't come together to make a race horse, they make some kind of > creature that has an arm, and leg, a hoof, a claw, and am mouth and exit > hole. It's very much like a Swiss army knife - does everything but damn > dangerous when you use all the things at once. > > Wt on the other hand, is C++ and takes care of all of that for you. You can > provide a CSS, but you don't have to. It doesn't matter if tomorrow the web > ditches HTML for XML or pure javascript, or ditches MIME headers for JSON > ones. The toolkit will take care of it for you. Don't recode, just > recompile. And let the toolkit take care of browser sniffing. Everything > made hard by traditional web development is made obsolete by Wt. > > And yes, I would love it if Qt and Wt merged.
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