Is it possible to write web-based GUI using Python?

James T. Dennis jadestar at idiom.com
Wed Nov 27 15:26:31 EST 2002


Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:05, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
>> What I'd like to be able to do is implement a complete GUI-based control 
>> application (with buttons, slider, whatever widgets the app needs) 
>> accessible over the web.

> If you confine yourself to HTML widgets (which does not includes
> sliders, for instance), this is obviously possible -- that's what forms
> are, after all.  If you want widgets beyond what's available in HTML
> (either more responsive/interactive, or simply widgets HTML doesn't
> have, like decent file selection), then you will have to either code up
> a Java applet (potentially in Jython), or write a client application.

 As a nitpick you might be able to implement many of these in JavaScript
 (Yuck!) and even in Mozilla's XUL (though that would limit you to Mozilla
 and newer Netscape clients *and* seems to mostly require JavaScript,
 anyway).





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