On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Nadim Khemir wrote:

> 1/ Sam take it easy on Binkley you last mails were quite devastating (I know
> you meant well) If Binkley wants to add another CPAN module that he like,
> let it be. Sam is right for one thing let's not reinvent the wheel.

Let me apologize publicly then, I meant no insult.  Sometimes I get a
little... over-excited talking about HTML templating.  Sorry!

> 2/ A browser does not need to have a server to do work. The statement Sam
> give in his mail (see above) is plain wrong. The scripts embedded in the
> html page can do some work. This is not theoretical, I did it (in perl) and
> Binkley is right that no challenge.

Example?  I'd be very interested in seeing an example of a HTML page with
a form that doesn't need a web server to submit results to a Perl script
running on the same machine.  That would be quite useful in a number of
situations...

> 3/ If all you need is is too get input locally (not from an extern system)
> and have it graphical.
>       a/ Have a look at WxPerl it might surprise you.
>       b/ Under windows, Win32::Gui may have something for you
>       c/ The idea of embedding a web server was not that foolish

I didn't think 3c was foolish!  I think I said it was "neat".  As for the
first 2, both are fine.  Personally, I've been getting into the Gtk/Gnome
modules under Linux lately.

-sam

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