I just came across this web-based emacs-like editor. It might serve as inspiration for the case of a web based IDE<br><br><a href="http://robrohan.com/projects/9ne/">http://robrohan.com/projects/9ne/</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Ippolito</b> <<a href="mailto:bob@redivi.com">bob@redivi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/12/07, Toby Thain <<a href="mailto:toby@smartgames.ca">toby@smartgames.ca</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On 12-Jun-07, at 5:45 PM, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:<br>><br>> >> After I posted, I wondered if I'd misread your mail, and you were
<br>> >> actually planning a platform independent core with a fancy OS X-<br>> >> optimised Cocoa version. But apparently I did not...<br>> >><br>> >> Doesn't this seriously limit the market - or if non-commercial,
<br>> >> "audience" - for your tool? Which means it's not going to do the<br>> >> Erlang platform any favours either, if that was your aim.<br>> ><br>> > It looks like Safari is now ported to Windows and thus there is a port
<br>> > of Cocoa. I don't have any more details, but it would be<br>> > interesting...<br>><br>> OS X + Windows != portable. In any case as others point out, a Cocoa<br>> runtime for Windows is so far a dream.
<br>><br>> That's not to say that portable GUIs are easy. Frameworks all suck.<br><br>If you want something to run cross-platform, you might as well target<br>web browsers... Not that a totally web based IDE would be very fun to
<br>use (Zope 2!), but you could probably implement the majority of the<br>app as JSON or XML HTTP services served up by Erlang, and do a lot of<br>the UI with an embedded WebKit or something. Bonus is that you could<br>probably do all of the interesting stuff with alternate interfaces
<br>pretty easily (e.g. Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, Flash, ...), and porting<br>wouldn't be so hard.<br><br>-bob<br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">
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