We might be not talking about the same thing. Most of these solutions basically convert/render HTML into something desktop friendly. If you want to keep the HTML component as-is, you can go with plain vanilla webkit that is in qt since 4.4.x http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8eRwjbcFk (this would be the web-compatible component)
Now, for the fun desktop part: Qt has an Uic module, which dynamically 'renders' the dialogs, widgets, etc. The good thing is that this Uic thingy can be fed with XML (see http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/quiloader.html ). The layout itself is styled with souped up variant of CSS (another old buddy from the web world !). So, 'all' you have to do is change the views to XML-s (which can be automated to an extent via automated converters from html (maybe some xslt), or the helpers). Now, this is a bit less radical than having HTML + javascript *only*, but you don't have make up your own extensions to HTML to make it work, AND you gain *everything* on the desktop that Qt can offer. And when I say everything, I mean OpenGL components, Phonon audio/video, QtKinetic/ animated UI, model aware tables, more input elements etc etc. Quite a bit more than Titanium and Air can offer, I dare say. Rendering from the same source is appealing, but I believe that way you can go with a common subset of functionality (and butcher the original markup spec anyway), contrary to the approach above that lets the view fully exploit all functionality available (whether that be web or desktop). All the while we could keep the model and controller parts (and even the largest part of web2py for that matter) untouched. On Apr 4, 3:42 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:28 AM, AchipA <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Another fairly easy to do alternative would be Qt through webkit, if > > you don't mind the size. > > Looking athttp://pyjd.org/ > they seem to suggest that Qt is not ready to go (no PyWebkitQt4 yet; > indeedhttp://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitContrib > suggests WebkitQt4 port is still in progress). > > pyjamas desktop (pyjd.org) might be an option for now. > > > > > On Apr 4, 5:28 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I believe ceej has been working with web2py + titanium. Perhaps he can > > > give us some advice. > > > > On Apr 3, 8:15 pm, ice9 <meier.aa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have been reading and hearing a lot about taking web frameworks like > > > > pylons to create a web app that works on the desktop and web.. The > > > > one using pylons was using dabo which uses wxPython for the gui lib. > > > > I just think it would be very cool to do such a thing, alternatives > > > > are Titanium by appcelerator, Pyjamas-desktop which is very rough. > > > > Web2py is mature and works great out of the box. > > > > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
