[ann] pyjamas 0.8alpha1 release

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> after a long delay the pyjamas project - http://pyjs.org - has begun the
> 0.8 series of releases, beginning with alpha1:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/files/pyjamas/0.8/
>
> pyjamas is a suite of projects, including a python-to-javascript
> compiler with two modes of operation (roughly classified as "python
> strict" and "Optimised"); a GUI Framework almost identical to that of
> the GWT Project (1.5 to 1.7);

 oh one other thing - for the 0.8 release, jim washington kindly added
an HTML5-compliant "Drag-n-Drop" interface, which, on web engines that
do not have HTML5, is emulated.  and thus provides the exact same API,
regardless of the web browser being used.  cool, huh?  if i was a
java-lover, i'd look forward to that being added some day to GWT.

 btw - if anyone's at all curious [about GWT "Desktop" possibilities],
there *does* exist a sort-of "Desktop" version [not really] - it's
basically webkit, it requires execution under the eclipse IDE, and
it's still javascript (not Java).  i _did_ speak to the GWT Team,
raising with them the possibility of doing Java bindings to Webkit [or
XulRunner, or MSHTML] and providing a port of GWT that can run GWT
applications REALLY as stand-alone Desktop applications, and they
basically implied that that'll happen "when hell freezes over".  i
guess the idea of providing languages other than javascript with
direct access to the full and incredible capabilities of DOM and HTML5
is just... too alien.  which is funny, because pyjamas desktop shows
what can be done: web browser engines can literally be turned into
cross-platform GUI engines.

l.