[Qt-interest] Qt future ...

[Jason H]

Adobe AIR - Same Webkit (Native clients, web clients) as Qt, but with Flash, not 
Qt/QML.
Works on iPhone too.




----- Original Message ----
From: Pascal Patry <iscy at invalidip.com>
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 2:39:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt future ...

On Thursday, April 28, 2011 09:35:00 sarvesh saran wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Paul Miller <paul at fxtech.com> wrote:
> > Seriously, what is the alternative? If you're writing for one platform
> > then maybe it's easier but if you have to write for more than one
> > platform I don't see a viable alternative.
> 
> For desktop based cross platform applications Qt is the best option. As a
> Qt developer I see a lot of promise in QML, its slick and there are some
> cool things happening in mobility and other areas(Qt3D). It will be great
> when the port to Android (and maybe WebOS?) is completed. However, a
> serious alternative on mobiles could be HTML5 +JavaScript +CSS (
> http://mashable.com/2011/02/22/html-mobile-development/)

Believe me.. HTML5+JS+CSS is an "alternative" for mobile development,
but it's really far from a serious one. If you know enough languages to
be able to develop natively on the desktop with Qt, natively with ObjC
on the iPhone and "natively" with Java on Android, then you should
compare how bad these HTML5 claims are. In all cases, you'll never be
able to exploit the whole device and speed will kill the experience for
all users... even the ones that think they don't care about.

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