On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Chris Fox <ch...@robotninja.net> wrote: > On 17/06/2012 03:42, Chris Angelico wrote: >> I want to promote Linux as a replacement for Windows. But I do not >> see that Linux needs to be able to run Internet Explorer in order >> to do that. Maybe when people move to a replacement, they need to >> learn a slightly different way of doing things; and in this case, I >> would strongly recommend the "build your UI in code" method. >> >> ChrisA > > So you use wget on linux and read the html code in a terminal? That > would seem to be a reasonable analogy. > > (a different) Chris
Well, I have been known to use wget, a simple HTML-to-text converter, and watch... made for a fairly simple monitor for something that had a browser-based status display. But no, I don't go to that extent. That would be analogous to abolishing GUI frameworks altogether and expecting everyone to use and write command-line tools. We're talking here about building your own program, and whether or not you can use a GUI to build a GUI. Most other interfaces aren't built using themselves; look at web-based web site builders, they almost universally suck (and those that don't suck are special-purpose things, like MediaWiki, that just happen to be able to be used to build a web site). WYSIWYG HTML editors have become rather better now than they were (say) 10-15 years ago, but I still believe in hand-writing HTML and CSS (or using straight-forward tools) for best results. ChrisA (keeping the A(ngelico) on the name to distinguish from all the other geeky Chrises, of whom there are a good few on this list) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
