Re:GTK+ 3.2 released - allows rendering applications in HTML...
by orblivion on Monday September 26, 2011 @03:41PM
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Something that crossed my mind, maybe you can help me answer. Are there cases where it would be easier to create a GTK application than a javascript application? This whole concept seems like it opens up a lot of opportunities for websites to provide rich interfaces, but then I think, wait, aren't people thinking of going the opposite direction? For instance, the high level GUI programming for Gnome Shell is in javascript.
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Re:GTK+ 3.2 released - allows rendering applications in HTML...
by amalcon on Monday September 26, 2011 @08:23PM
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It would be entirely possible to do both at the same time. There are javascript bindings for GTK. This isn't so much a workaround for javascript as a workaround for HTML.
And yes, there are absolutely cases where it would be easier to create a GTK application than an HTML application. You don't need to worry about choosing a widget library, for one, and placement is very straightforward.