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switch-hitter	2013-08-22 , 19:44
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Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic

Code:

page.addListener("initialize", function() {
  var button = new qx.ui.mobile.form.Button();
  page.getContent().add(button);
  button.addListener("tap", function() {
    alert("Hello World");
  }, this);
},this);

This crap makes me cry.

Read it and weep, baby

Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic

Because Firefox is such a lean and mean platform?.. I guess I've missed something.

Because it increases the incentive for more performant JavaScript - Baseline, ASM.JS, Emscripten... there's a lot going on here and success for FFOS and/or Tizen should serve to keep that momentum going. Like it or loath it JavaScript is everywhere now.

Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic

Qt always runs predictable, native and there's always the option of talking to the OS directly.

I'm not knocking Qt or native apps but I think JavaScript is going to prove a lot more capable than many advocates of native apps would like to believe.

I've started to really like Go, I hope Google are quietly beavering away to make it target Android.

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