[olug] Chrome

[T. J. Brumfield]

Bringing it all full-circle, (and on topic) that is one of the rather
nice things about QT 4.  Code once, and it largely just runs on BSD,
Solaris, Linux, Mac, and Windows.  When KDE 4 moved to QT 4, it
allowed KDE to work on all these platforms.  KDE 4 even went a few
steps farther than QT 4 and made the API extremely simple with
underlying technologies like Solid, Decibel and Phonon.  With a couple
lines of code, you have a video player. Even better, that video player
works on any platform, and you don't have to know anything about those
platforms.  Phonon decides (with your input if you so desire) how to
best output on your platform, with a variety of back-ends such as
Gstreamer, Xine, Quicktime, etc.

This is why I'm shocked that Chrome wasn't built on QT.  It would be
multi-platform from day one.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> In regards to multiplatform goodness... I'm unsure how truely enwrapped
> within the win32 api it is... I don't have the time to dig through mb's of
> foreign sauce.  If it's got a complete isolation/wrapper from some rendering
> goodness ... then as a coder, I see it as a design decision to be able to
> flex each architectures strengths rather than settling for the lowest common
> denominator.... with the extra work possibly being worth it.
>
> -Will