Client side GUI-like web framework ?
Wouldn't it be handy if there was a web framework that allowed you to create pages and control the interface like you would using a client-side GUI framework such as Tkinter? The framework would need a small, fast web server that would automatically fire up when you ran your application and you then control the interface just like you would with client-side GUI widgets (within the limitations of browsers of course). It would handle all the complexities of HTTP, HTML, Javascript, etc. letting you focus on adding functionality to your application. Essentially you would be using the browser as your cross-platform client-side interface. You would just interact with all the widgets like trees, grids, paned windows, checkboxes, buttons, etc. There wouldn't happen to be anything like that available, would there? I've seen CherryPy but that doesn't quite seem to be what I described. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side GUI-like web framework ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You just described what XUL aims to be > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_Joy_of_XUL > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner > > At present it lacks for sure documentation (or maybe it isn't > organized really well) Just took a look at XUL and it in some ways describes what I was thinking except it doesn't appear to deliver it's interface via a browser/web server. Then your application wouldn't be accessible via a web browser through the internet. The XUL application still appears to only execute locally on the client machine? Also, personally I find having to describe your interface directly via XML (XUL) is just plain ugly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side GUI-like web framework ?
Michael L Torrie wrote: > > But it is served up in the firefox web browser. A good example is: > > http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul > That's pretty slick, but unfortunately then you're locked into only the Firefox web browser, which many folks don't use. You're trading OS lock-in for browser lock-in. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side GUI-like web framework ?
Michael L Torrie wrote: > Which is a heck of lot better than OS lock in. Of course you can use > xul-runner or something. Gecko and XUL are both open source, so I'm not > quite sure what this lock in really is, though. > Lock-in in the sense that your application would only run in the Firefox browser, not IE, Safari, Opera, etc... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side GUI-like web framework ?
jay graves wrote: > On Feb 4, 11:45 am, USCode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wouldn't it be handy if there was a web framework that allowed you to >> create pages and control the interface like you would using a >> client-side GUI framework such as Tkinter? > > What about GWT? > http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ > > Or its python counterpart, pyjamas? > http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/ > > ... > jay graves Thanks Jay and I guess in my original post I didn't explicitly specify Python but that is what I was after. After poking around a bit pyjamas looks like it might be exactly what I was after except the main pyjamas website http://pyjamas.pyworks.org appears to be down ... is it still an active project? Anyone have any experience with pyjamas? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
