[Qt-interest] Qt future ...

[Pascal Patry]

On Thursday, April 28, 2011 15:01:36 you wrote:
> Pascal:
> 
>   You'd better tell the folks developing Nokia's Ovi store;
>   their entire strategy is based on HTML5+JS+CSS.

With Nokia moving into the Windows Phone platform and leaving Qt's
commercial support up to another company, I find it very hard to care
about them... But obviously, that's only *my* point of view.

>   And a lot of folks besides just Nokia are counting on
>   exactly this being the "sweet spot" for developers for
>   the near-term future.

I know what you are saying... I took the same path one day thinking that
HTML5 on mobile devices would be the "Qt" that we know on the desktop.
Unfortunately, I understood too lately how bad it was... and today I
wish I could forget about all those dirty tricks about debugging the JS
running on these mobile devices. It was really painful... really...

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> From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On
> Behalf Of Pascal Patry Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 14:39
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> 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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