Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by dkersten on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:34PM (#2558015)

Qt Quick with its QML environment (UI markup + Javascript + native extensions if you need them) is a great middle ground.

It seems that the plan for Qt 5 is to move the enitre Qt toolkit over to the "QML first" model - that is, QML becomes the default way to create interfaces, for both mobile and desktop apps, and native widgets are only used when you require them. They also want to better integrate webkit and web content. In a recent Qt desktop app of mine, I was already doing this: QML + webkit + native backend for the heavy lifting and it works very well. Be awesome to have it as the default in all environments.

FWIW, I think QML/JS would have made a greate HTML/CSS/JS alternative.

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Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. by mythz on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:59PM (#2558644)

We've used QML in a recent QT/C++ desktop app and it's performance is comparatively poor compared with WebKit rendering and its CSS subset support is woefully inadequate.

The HTML/CSS/JS dev model is fine as it is, there's no need to hope for nirvana grass-is-greener frameworks that don't exist. Learn HTML5 like the rest of us.

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