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shmerl is offline shmerl
2011-10-05 , 17:21
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#190
Originally Posted by maakoi View Post
Actually isnīt html5 cross-platform? No gtk, qt, proprietary bs, works (hopefully) on every platform?
Maybe some day we can choose whether we want a M$ kernel or linux, and all the apps will work. Those who want a slower device with more crashes and that costs and that cripples your freedom, can choose the monopoly/mafia os and the rest can choose Linux.

Maybe the desktop distros should start thinking about html5? The sofware companies could finally make really crossplatform games and other apps. Don't worry, it will never happen...
HTML5 is "cross platform" with many caveats in browsers differences. And those are a pain at present. It's not mature yet to be really solidly cross platform. While having it as an option is good, making it the only promoted option is bad. At least at present. And JavaScript is not suitable for every use case. WebGL is way behind in performance on mobile yet, so using native code has its benefits. (And it's not more crossplatform than OpenGL itself by the way, so bad luck finding it on some devices).
Last edited by shmerl; 2011-10-05 at 17:24.
 

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