[Gambas-devel] potential for web-based, cross-platform GAMBAS applications

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 08/29/2011 03:11 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> I just caught this on Slashdot:
>>
>> http://blog.chromium.org/2011/08/native-client-brings-sandboxed-native.html
>>
>> Looks like it's still early on in development, but when it becomes more
>> useful I think it has great potential. To summarize from the article:
>>
>> "Native Client apps live on the web platform, so you don’t need to
>> create separate versions of your app for each operating system. Rather
>> than relying on OS-specific APIs, Native Client apps use Pepper, a set
>> of interfaces that provide C and C++ bindings to the capabilities of
>> HTML5. This means that once you’ve ported your code to Native Client, it
>> will work across different operating systems, and you only need to
>> maintain one code base."
>>
>> If GAMBAS was made to work with it, any GAMBAS application could be run
>> in a browser. As I said, it's not near finished, but I think an eye
>> should be kept on it for the future.
> I hate that. They actually have the same goal than Microsoft : making their
> platform unavoidable.
>
> Moreover JavaScript is a mess, HTML5 is not finished, Mozilla wants to design
> "WebAPI"...
>
> I made Gambas just because of that. :-)
>
> Now, in a more constructive way, it's interesting :-). It's one more "in the
> wind" thing to do:
>
> 1) Compiling Gambas interpreter on Android and use the androit scripting
> server to make application.
>
> And now:
>
> 2) Making a "Pepper" component so that Gambas app can be run inside this GGG
> (google gilded guardian).
>

Hahahaa. Yeah, it would be nice if everyone got got together to create a 
real standard that didn't have "hidden agenda" plastered all over it. 
Just goes to show that "open source" and "common good" aren't always the 
same thing. Maybe a lesser of evils will emerge that will allow GAMBAS 
to be web-based and/or cross-platform. Something like a VirtualBox 
browser extension might work.

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