On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote:
> after a long delay the pyjamas project - http://pyjs.org - has begun the > 0.8 series of releases, beginning with alpha1: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/files/pyjamas/0.8/ > > pyjamas is a suite of projects, including a python-to-javascript > compiler with two modes of operation (roughly classified as "python > strict" and "Optimised"); a GUI Framework almost identical to that of > the GWT Project (1.5 to 1.7); oh one other thing - for the 0.8 release, jim washington kindly added an HTML5-compliant "Drag-n-Drop" interface, which, on web engines that do not have HTML5, is emulated. and thus provides the exact same API, regardless of the web browser being used. cool, huh? if i was a java-lover, i'd look forward to that being added some day to GWT. btw - if anyone's at all curious [about GWT "Desktop" possibilities], there *does* exist a sort-of "Desktop" version [not really] - it's basically webkit, it requires execution under the eclipse IDE, and it's still javascript (not Java). i _did_ speak to the GWT Team, raising with them the possibility of doing Java bindings to Webkit [or XulRunner, or MSHTML] and providing a port of GWT that can run GWT applications REALLY as stand-alone Desktop applications, and they basically implied that that'll happen "when hell freezes over". i guess the idea of providing languages other than javascript with direct access to the full and incredible capabilities of DOM and HTML5 is just... too alien. which is funny, because pyjamas desktop shows what can be done: web browser engines can literally be turned into cross-platform GUI engines. l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
