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The purpose of this toolkit is twofold:<br /> | The purpose of this toolkit is twofold:<br /> | ||
* it would make it | * it would make it easy to "sugarize" web apps (like gmail).<br /> | ||
* there are a lot of developers that are familiar with HTML(5), CSS and JavaScript and it would be great to take advantage of their skills.<br /> | * there are a lot of web developers out there that are familiar with HTML(5), CSS and JavaScript and it would be great to take advantage of their skills.<br /> | ||
Integration of web applications with the desktop is a very useful (and popular) thing to do. Gears, AIR, Prism, HTML 5 and various combinations between them extend the browser with: persistent storage, accessing files, desktop icons, running in a separate window/process, programmatic drawing, etc.<br /><br /> | Integration of web applications with the desktop is a very useful (and popular) thing to do. Gears, AIR, Prism, HTML 5 and various combinations between them extend the browser with: persistent storage, accessing files, desktop icons, running in a separate window/process, programmatic drawing, etc.<br /><br /> | ||
There are two main strategies for implementing this: | There are two main strategies for implementing this: | ||