> > 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. >
Got it. But then you need the platform-specific version of Python installed wherever you want your app to run. You can do something like web2py and package your own Python interpreter, but this still requires platform-specific versions (web2py has separate versions for Windows and Mac), and I'm not sure there are yet solutions for mobile platforms. Note, the Mozilla Apps project does not enable you to run any language you want -- it is limited to browser technologies (HTML, CSS, and Javascript). Mozilla Apps are run via a platform-specific WebRT runtime, which is just a Firefox extension on Windows and Mac and uses PhoneGap on Android. Anthony
