[Marble-devel] web version

[Torsten Rahn]

Dear Haim,

That sounds interesting. I guess first and foremost we'd need to make up our 
minds what a web version of Marble would look like and how it would fit
together with our current mission. After all Marble is a valuable brand 
and the name Marble currently stands for a mission, a team and a code base 
built on top of Qt.

A web version of Marble would surely differ hugely in terms of code base from 
our current Qt / QML code. So what principles would be shared by a WebMarble
with our current team and codebase? This is really important to clarify in 
advance. I suggest you read our age-old mission statement:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GoMarble/Manifesto

It's still valid for the most part today. By reading that you can hopefully 
draw conclusions how a "WebMarble" would fit into these principles. While it 
wouldn't be based on Qt it could share other aspects, like:

- uses free software and promotes free maps
- "swiss army knife for maps"
- share map material
- ease of use 
- easy to set up
- high code quality
- share review capabilities
- share algorithms and code design where possible
- share code and UI designs with Marble Touch ?
- modular

(any ideas for more?)

It would also be important to define what the primary focus of such a project 
would be: Would it be a "Marble on diet" in terms of feature set for use on 
webpages (e.g. our marble.kde.org web page)? How would a WebMarble be 
complementary to our current offerings (Marble and Marble Touch)?

It's very important to have this discussed beforehand. It's also crucially 
important that you work closely with our team.

Best Regards,
Torsten
 



 


On Donnerstag, 29. November 2012 03:39:58 you wrote:
> Dear Torsten,
> 
> I think I will arrange a team among my friends in order to volunteer for
> web version.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Haim
> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
> > Dear Haim,
> > 
> > So far nobobdy has worked on a web version. But it would be interesting
> > to see
> > a special Marble version developed for a web browser. It just needs
> > somebody
> > to volunteer ;-)
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Torsten
> > 
> > On Dienstag, 27. November 2012 05:00:41 Haim Rodrik wrote:
> > > Dear Friends,
> > > 
> > > The app that I downloaded its desktop version. Is there web app version
> > > ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Haim