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Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by toni »

kushsolitary wrote: post #12
bbayer wrote: post #11

Can anyone explain what is the difference with Adobe AIR?

You need to install Adobe AIR in order to run the apps created for AIR but for TideSDK, you don't need any additional software.

You need to install Tide runtime once (just like AIR) to be able to run Tide apps.

Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by jakozaur »

Great project!

The only minor thing that disturbes me are a few well-known logos (Atlassian, GitHub) beyond "Thank you". I know it is a grey area of ethics, but perhaps we should encourage to put real partners (clients, etc.). If you quickly scroll you may see it as more impressive, but in long run listing that kinds of acts seems unprofessional (e.g. listing Microsoft as major partner, when you just license their software).

Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by baggachipz »

vidarh wrote: post #4
djla wrote: post #3

This looks like it's based on Titanium, which I've used before and they basically stopped supporting the product for Desktop applications... weary of starting another project using this. Last time I had to convert everything over to an Adobe AIR wrapper with a HTML control. http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2012/01/the-future-of...

What makes you weary of using it? This project looks like it's demonstrated quite well that they were able to cleanly take over where Appcelerator left off, with a degree of cooperation from Appcelerator.

Wary. Wary of using it. Unless using it actually tires his body/mind to the point of exhaustion.

Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by _neil »

Feeble wrote: post #8

We made a quick spike locally in the office. Like the idea but seems to be based on a two year old webkit and only gets a score of 202 in html5test.com.

It seems [1] they are updating to trunk in 1.4.0, whenever that happens.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13598319/questions-regard... (4th paragraph)

Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by muyuu »

I was looking for examples or a gallery of sorts, but couldn't find anything other than this:

https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki/TideSDK%20Samples

And maybe in this tutorial that I didn't have time to finish yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikb-4tdygg

Looking forward to give it a shot.

Re: Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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Post by fairwinds »

muyuu wrote: post #19

I was looking for examples or a gallery of sorts, but couldn't find anything other than this: https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki/TideSDK%20Samples And maybe in this tutorial that I didn't have time to finish yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikb-4tdygg Looking forward to give it a shot.

Here is a recent example in production with shopify

http://www.shopify.com/technology/6825262-shopify-desktop-th...

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