I'm going to link this thread from the ideas page, so I wanted to copy from the other thread: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org" target="_blank">bryan@olenepal.org</a>> wrote: [Javascript+html5 dev tools] don't compare [with Flash] currently but they are developing rapidly, particularly aptana <a href="http://www.aptana.com/" target="_blank">http://www.aptana.com</a>. The great thing about aptana is that there is for-profit company behind it that seems to do a good job of sponsoring open-source development. Also, Apple, Palm, and maybe Android are pushing for js+html5 for all apps place of flash. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 Jameson Quinn <<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>> wrote: I think that for a GSoC project, we care less about development kits/IDEs like aptana, than about desktop-apps-with-AJAX solutions like Appcelerator Titanium, Mozilla Prism (and in closed-source world, Adobe AIR and Curl). I think it would be a great project to take Titanium or Prism and make a generic sugar-like hello-world which used Javascript to save to the journal, set some tags, open a file, coexist with Rainbow, and have a sugary toolbar. Whether you worked on that activity with Aptana or whatever is a separate issue. Disclaimer: I know nothing under the hood about any of the products mentioned here, so I could be totally wrong. Jameson