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
