So this is like Adobe AIR? (FYI Adobe AIR also supports HTML in addition to Flash)
Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
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#22Integrate with Google Drive and I'm sold.
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#23So this is like Adobe AIR? (FYI Adobe AIR also supports HTML in addition to Flash)
No. This is a development environment, not a runtime.
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#24I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
The productivity of web-based development, with access to richer API's and local storage, on the reach and cross-platform of Chrome, with the visibility of publishing it on the Chrome Web Store, and only 1 browser to test it on = Win, Win!
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#25they gonna end up giving such developer access to everyone where we'd be making standalone app every other day in short more power and more apps i am super excited about it.
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#26Honestly, I don't see a point. Presumably, it originates from the belief that the the web is the future and that it will finally replace native platforms. I used to strongly believe in that too but now I don't think it will happen any time soon, if at all. Currently there are two kinds of platforms: the web, initilly intended for documents and native platforms, designed primarily for apps . Both have different streng…
You can try to get there by bringing the benefits of the web to apps, and by bringing the benefits of apps to the web. We're already seeing this with ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, Cordova, etc. on the web side, and various efforts to streamline app installation, add deep linking, and other things on the app side.
Personally, I think browsers can be a quite good application platform - they're basically a view hierarchy, with a layout and styling system, an event model, and scripting engine. With efforts like the *OS APIs, custom elements, asm.js/PNaCl/Dart, WebGL, canvas, Service Workers... there's a lot you can do, all in a stack that's easily accessible to millions of developers.
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#27There will be at least three development platforms called Spark now, the others being http://spark.incubator.apache.org/ and https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Spark
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#28I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
> What's the point?
It's basically Java, but Google made it. Your Chrome Apps can run wherever Chrome does.
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#29I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
> They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
They are the "native" apps for ChromeOS that, incidentally, can also run anywhere else* that Chrome OS runs.
* except iOS
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#30Before Android, I would have been super excited to read this, but now...?
Seems like it's yet another technology that Android will soon be steamrolling.