From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T10:23:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Yahoo! Widgets (JavaScript) - do we have a anything like this?

Dňa Štvrtok 09 Február 2006 00:28 Glenn M. Lewis napísal:
> Hi all!
>
> 	There is a challenge on Pixel Corps (http://www.pixelcorps.com/)
> to write a cool widget that runs both on WinXP and Mac OS X... I was going
> to use Ruby and OpenGL.  In the challenge, they mentioned Yahoo! Widgets
> ( http://widgets.yahoo.com/ ).  I checked it out, and it looks amazing!
> They provide all sorts of graphics API to make things easier, and the whole
> thing is based upon JavaScript and XML.
>
> 	Do we have anything like this in the Ruby world?
>
> 	Thanks!
> -- Glenn

Wouldn't bindings to Linux desktop / window managers let you implement applets 
for those? (Look, Mom, no proprietary applet engine!) Just a thought, haven't 
really actually looked into it.

David Vallner