XUL requires a gecko based browser and last I heard, wasn't very efficient. Given that the freerunner browser is going to be based on webkit, this isn't ideal :)
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Hans L wrote: > I think the idea of designing interfaces with existing web > technologies is not such a bad idea. But I would not automatically > make the assumption that a web server must be involved to do so. You > might be interested in trying to develop in a XUL interface( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL ), which is supposed to leverage > javascript, css and DOM which you are probably familiar with. > Honestly, I know very little about XUL, except that it sounds like it > might be a convenient way for web developers to move towards GUI > programming. Also, I'm not sure if this is currently buildable to run > on openmoko, but it's something to look into. > > Hans > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Dirk Bergstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Basically all of my experience writing UIs is on the web. I'd like to >> run a webserver on the phone, so I can write dirt-simple UIs that way, >> rather than getting tied up in GTK/e/Qt. >> >> I see that there's a busybox server: >> >> http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/armv4t/busybox-httpd_1.11.0-r2_armv4t.ipk >> >> One might also consider thttpd: >> >> http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ >> >> Or shttpd: >> >> http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/ >> >> I suspect any of them would be OK for serving static files. However, I >> wonder if CGI would be feasible. I'm guessing that spawning a shell >> script wouldn't be too hard, but I suspect that spinning up a whole >> python process might be a bit much for the little arm CPU. Anyone have >> any thoughts on that? >> >> Since I'm quite familiar with Django (http://www.djangoproject.com), I >> thought I might just run the Django development server, which has a >> toy-ish httpd server built in. That way I'd already have python >> running, so I'd avoid all the fork/exec/load-libraries overhead. >> >> Not really sure where I'm going with this, just throwing out ideas to >> see if anyone says yea or nay. >> >> -- >> Dirk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
