From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T02:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Browser applications (applets, flash...) with Ruby?

Daniel Baird wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Jonas Hartmann <Mail@jonas-hartmann.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I am really a noob, I still think JavaScript is NOT to LIMITED.
>> JavaScript has a bad scent cause there are so many people with really
>> NO idea about programming that want "nifty" javascript on their
>> webpages ;-(.
>>
>> While I dont like JavaScript very much, I think its a REAL language
>> you can do REAL things with. Maybe you can take a look at CANVAS in
>> Safari/Mozilla or SVG and use these tools with JS to write web
>> browser, client side, based games.
>>
> 
> I agree that JavaScript is a real language.. I'd even go so far as to
> say that you can do more in JavaScript that in Java.
> 
> But, graphical output is very difficult to do in a cross-browser way.
> So JS is not that good for certain types of in-browser games.

If you do stuff on Bitmap basis. No.
And you can do that with <canvas> in a very speedy way afaik.