Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design question, HTML for GUIs?

2010-01-10 Thread Gwern Branwen
2010/1/10 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi everyone, as probably most people I find the GUI part of any application to be the hardest part. It just occurred to me that I *could* write my wxHaskell desktop application as a web app too. When the app starts, a haskell web server start

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design question, HTML for GUIs?

2010-01-10 Thread Jochem Berndsen
Günther Schmidt wrote: as probably most people I find the GUI part of any application to be the hardest part. It just occurred to me that I *could* write my wxHaskell desktop application as a web app too. When the app starts, a haskell web server start listening on localhost port 8080

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design question, HTML for GUIs?

2010-01-10 Thread Michael Snoyman
I wrote a package to turn Hack applications into standalone apps using Webkit. The code is available at http://github.com/snoyberg/hack-handler-webkit. However, it's currently Linux-only. However, if I was going to write a desktop app based on an HTML GUI, I would bundle Webkit like this. It fixes