On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 May 2013 03:39, "llanitedave" <llanited...@veawb.coop> wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:24:15 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: >> > there's another option that is available to every platform and >> > (practially) every high level language: the web browser. Make your app >> > serve HTTP and do up your UI in HTML5/CSS3 - your facilities are >> > pretty extensive. Plus you get networking support for free! Obviously >> > this option isn't for everyone, but don't discount it out of hand. >> > >> > ChrisA >> >> I've been thinking about that myself for some future app ideas. If you >> have a stand-alone app working from your web browser, don't you need an >> embedded web server to utilize the file system? Is a system like Django for >> an app overkill? Or is its embedded development server underkill for a >> single-user browser-based application? >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > JavaScript has this: > > http://appjs.org/ > > It's a node.js server app serving a folder of plain old HTML files to a > chrome embedded browser. > > You can code in a node.js server using anything you like, serve requests for > your client app (or use the server code directly, you can just put the > functions you would like to share with the client in the window object), > etc.
Many high level languages today come with simple HTTP server modules. They may not scale "to infinity and beyond", but they'll work fine for a single-user system using a browser for its UI. Chances are they'll do well for everything up to a single CPU core. Depends on the language and library, of course. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
