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Re: QML for the Web

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This repo has seen no changes for over 2 years. What am I missing? What's interesting here? The fact that this exists?

The project has been consistently updated this past few months. I don't get why you've said it hasn't changed for two years.

The last commit I saw was "shry15harsh committed with ChALkeR on Apr 7, 2014"

edit: interesting, github shows two different dates. I guess the commit date and author date are very different for the latest commit.

Re: QML for the Web

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The project has been consistently updated this past few months. I don't get why you've said it hasn't changed for two years.

The last commit I saw was "shry15harsh committed with ChALkeR on Apr 7, 2014" edit: interesting, github shows two different dates. I guess the commit date and author date are very different for the latest commit.

They're currently merging old forks. https://github.com/qmlweb/qmlweb/issues/134

Re: QML for the Web

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

QML is amazing for desktop apps as well. The only problem with QML on mobile is that stuff just won't look native or match native themes. Not the end of the world though.

5.7 is meant to fix that with reengineered controls that offer, among other improvements, a Material theme: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/11/23/qt-quick-controls-re-engin... They already have Holo, they just need Material for newer Android handsets, and those changes are going in 5.7 coming out in a few months.

Too late. They had since 5.0 to make it properly.

Now Xamarin is free to indies and they use native controls, not themes that look somehow like native.

Re: QML for the Web

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I have mixed feelings about QML. It somewhat looks like a new flash engine, except for mobile devices, and it became old the day React-Native appeared. But I like the design, and the way the UI is built (descriptive ui language with javascript, integrated event management, bridged with c++). Anyway, I starred the project and I'm very curious about the kind of traction QML can get.

QML is amazing for desktop apps as well. The only problem with QML on mobile is that stuff just won't look native or match native themes. Not the end of the world though.

It is worse than that. Up until 5.3, the common dialogs would render like on desktop OSes, just tinier, instead of being adapted to the mobile OSes concepts.

As far as I know it is still the case. One needs to reimplement the common dialogs in QML when doing mobile development with Qt.

Re: QML for the Web

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I have mixed feelings about QML. It somewhat looks like a new flash engine, except for mobile devices, and it became old the day React-Native appeared. But I like the design, and the way the UI is built (descriptive ui language with javascript, integrated event management, bridged with c++). Anyway, I starred the project and I'm very curious about the kind of traction QML can get.

Even though I have my issues with Qt, which I addressed in other threads, no sane native developer would take React over Qt.

It supports much more OSes, a proper separation between view and businesses language at language barrier and is fully native code.

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