[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[Jason H]

Qt is at that point that thanks to JavaScript and the new QML (4.7) / QGV that they can supplant Flash with completely open-source technology and render Flash/Silverlight moot.

The Qt with Qt JS engine, if packaged as a browser plugin now has enough capability to do all that it needs to - widgets, fancy graphics with QGV, Video with Qt Multimedia. What is needed now is a compiled format to be loaded into the plugin/exe and a graphical IDE (for the WYSIWYG  visual editing of the graphics view and such). Qt Creator could be this IDE, if they add Javascript and the WYSIWYG QML stuff). Publish a Java-Script centric manual, and there's your OpenSource Flash/Siverlight replacement!






----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at sabgroup.com>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 1:06:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

Moonlight is the deployment env for silverlight being put out by mono...

Im not talking about that...

Im talking about writing a Silverlight app, and running it on Linux...
It's a flash esq world...

No its not as general as C++ is for general purpose apps, but there are
a ton of apps being put out as desktop apps and
web apps in Silverlight/Flash world.
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Robert Wood
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 09:35
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

On 26/02/10 16:38, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> That's silly.  Never heard of Silverlight? Runs on Win/Mac/Linux and
> Mobile.

Yeah, but Silverlight's not for general apps is it? Isn't it just for 
web stuff? Also, the Linux version is called Moonlight and is being done

by he highly suspicious Mono project. It goes against Microsoft's whole 
ethos to support anything to do with FOSS, Id have thought. YOu can bet 
that if Silverlight took a real hold in the market, MS would pull the 
support for Linux and potentially leave it high and dry.
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