[Tutor] Starting a browser instance and passing a parameter to it.

[Don Taylor]

Alan Gauld wrote:

> What are you using for the XML-RPC server? Doesn't that need to be a
> web server of some sort anyhow? XML-RPC communicates using http...
> 

I am using simpleXMLRPCServer.  Yes, XML-RPC does use http as its 
transport protocol, but it does not have to run in the context of a 
web-server.  You can run XML-RPC 'under' CGI but that costs a lot in 
performance (continual re-loads) and, more importantly, forces a REST 
model on to the XML-RPC server.  I am treating XML-RPC as a socket 
server that happens to use http for its transport.

> You seem to be making a fairly easy task very complicated.
> 

Yes, quite possibly.  Just for fun, I am experimenting with ways to 
build portable desktop GUI applications - where portability includes 
independence from window managers.  I am trying to use a browser as the 
window manager for a (Python) application.

 > Remember that portable JavaScript is quite hard to write due to
 > browser
 > differences.

I plan to use something like Google Web Toolkit for the browser-side 
code.  GWT (and many others tools and libraries) abstracts away browser 
differences.  I don't plan to manipulate the browser DOM directly.

Sadly, the Pyjamas project has died - Pyjamas promised to be like GWT, 
but used Python instead of Java for writing the ui code.

Thx.  Don.