As I suggested to Derek, I think I've caused some confusion by not being clearer in my original question. I'm not thinking about client-only web-apps. I'm thinking about locally installed apps that use an html5 front-end. This is what win8 is promoting, and that's also the thrust of Mozilla's app project. In that kind of environment there's no reason that a python framework couldn't provide the back-end and run natively, without translation into js.
Ian On Friday, March 23, 2012 11:10:13 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > In that case, it still depends on a server. You know what I meant. The >> original topic is about using a web framework for a client-only app. > > > Really, I didn't know what you meant, as you said Pyjamas requires Python > to be installed. It doesn't depend on a server either, other than to > deliver the app to the browser (though I suppose it could be run locally as > well). Anyway, my point was just that Python can't be used for client-side > apps unless compiled to Javascript, and Pyjamas is an example of that. > > Anthony >
