[Python-ideas] A GUI for beginners and experts alike

[Brice Parent]

>
> The execution of this code, depends on PySimpleGUI, which in turn 
> depends on tkinter, which is in turn a thin layer on top of Tcl/Tk. 
> And Tcl/Tk provides the GUI layer.
> (See https://docs.python.org/3/library/tk.html.)
>
> I'm suggest that sometimes it may be better to use HTML5 to provide 
> the GUI layer. I pointed to Elm, to show how powerful HTML5 has become.
>
> Put another way, I'm suggesting that instead of
> > import PySimpleGUI as sg
>
> we are able to use
> > import HtmlSimpleGUI as sg
>
> for a module HtmlSimpleGUI that, sadly, hasn't been written yet!
>
> However, mine is just one voice, and I have little more to say. If you 
> don't mind, I'll leave this conversation now.
For me, it would even make more sense to split the project into two parts:
- the description library, which could roughly enable the syntax you 
propose (but with another import) to define what your interface should 
look like.
- rendering plugins to display the form in specific formats/type of 
displays. So you would have a tkinter (or whatever) plugin for a simple 
GUI, an bottle/html plugin (for example) to display your interface in a 
web browser, a plugin with a mix of those two to display the html form 
in a webview component, a plugin to display the form on a tiny touch 
enabled screen attached to your raspberry pi's GPIO pins or to your 
micropython module, etc. And if it makes sense (you didn't use any form 
element that is not compatible with a text-only display), a plugin to 
display your form in the CLI.

This would allow to detach the content from the presentation, and allow 
to make a project evolve depending on the needs without having to 
rewrite everything.

-Brice
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