From: "guirec c." Date: 2013-02-12T02:48:46+09:00 Subject: Re: The "ruby way" to do desktop applications? I'm thinking about that and I asked me : "Why is it useful to create a desktop application?". I think it's useful when we need a good performance and when we need to play with native components but, for most of cases, a web application is a good solution. When we need an basic application, like the one I gave in example, we can host it on the cloud. It's simpler and it increase the maintenability. When we need to have applications which need to work without the Internet, we can use a local storage tool. Today, things we can do with javascript are incredible. We can do 2d and 3d drawing, build animations, mobile application and a lot of things... There is a lot of tools like Backbone, HTML5, CSS3, etc. which give a great user experience. In addition, It's easy to create a mobile application, a web application and a locale application on the same server. It's easy to reuse the code and to share data. So, can I put Java to the draft and create my application only with standard web applications? I'm not sure. What do you think about that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.