Open-source HTML5 toolset aims to enable richer Web apps

http://www.arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/ninja-power-open-source-html5-toolset-hopes-to-unleash-the-web/

by llambda • 14 years ago

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Sottilde• 14 years ago

Ninja is a harbinger of great HTML5/CSS3 tools to come. We have been doing by hand what Flash animators have always had a great GUI for.

Montage, on the other hand, gets me less excited. It fills a niche that is already filled by tried&true frameworks like ExtJS, KnockoutJS, and BackboneJS and appears to be more verbose than all of them. Reusable components and event bindings are great though. It will be interesting to watch.

floptikal2• 14 years ago

To bad it doesn't run on Linux...

AsylumWarden2• 14 years ago

Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor. Get a VM and buy a copy of Windows; problem solved. I have 4 OSes running on my laptop three of which are running under a VM. With the unity mode I don't normally even see the seams. I've got Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Redhat. Actually I have 5 OSes but I don't use my Windows 8 pre-release which might have expired by now.

I am eagerly anticipating tools like this maturing to a level where really serious development can take place. I mean, I did a good bit of development in Flash and Flex but things really didn't take off for me until there were really powerful editing tools that went beyond dropping a few things on a canvas and tying them together with code. This tool but at a Unity 3D level of editing would super nice.

floptikal2• 14 years ago

"Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor."

Really. I think you are missing the point. It's kind of sad seeing a modern browser app not being able to run on multiple platforms.

In my optics it undermines the whole idea about creating browser apps. If files system hooks are the problem, let me just save online or via the browser api.

In the future, I'd like to be able to get some stuff done without having to spin up 5 OS'es.

feefie• 14 years ago

I'm interested in trying this out. If you don't mind, could you please tell me the type and basic specs of your laptop and the name of the VM software you're using? From there I'll Google the rest.

Open-source HTML5 toolset aims to enable richer Web apps

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