On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: >> But 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. > > Both the concept and actually implemented examples of so-called "web > applications" prove that they are just plain garbage and hopelessly > unusable for anything remotely resembling actual screenwork. > > HTML forms may be at best useful for "web shops", but for actual > screenwork, HTML is not a valid GUI, no matter how much javascript you > add to it.
All depends on your requirements. For the Yosemite Project, I wanted the networking aspect, so the web browser UI was a good one. It's been working beautifully for... what, four or six years now, I think; and it's just a few pages of Python. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
