Gerald, I don't find the post on the python mailing list, can you give me a hint of the subject or date?
Thanks,
Karl
Gerald Bauer wrote:
Hello,
Jon Perez writes on the python mailinglist:
Still, what I think would appeal to a lot of people (although they might not know it yet) as a GUI solution for Python is Mozilla XUL with all the RDF and XPCOM crap surgically removed from it.
If you've ever tried a couple of basic XUL tutorials, I think you would be convinced that XUL is an even better way to develop GUIs than visual RAD tools.
After years of doing web apps, I feel the DHTML/DOM approach as applied to GUI creation is superior in terms of learning curve, productivity and ease of code maintenance to imperative language, event-driven, IDE-coupled frameworks like Delphi, Windows Forms or Swing... except for the fact that the HTML widgets (if you could even call them that) are very primitive.
XUL essentially gives you full fledged GUI widgets and allows you to script them from Javascript the same way you script HTML elements via DOM or DHTML (very easily, in other words). Now, imagine being able to use Python instead of Javascript... sounds like a match made in heaven to me.
Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers are too
enamoured with Javascript and RDF and XPCOM to realize
that XUL (which is really shaping up beautifully if
you look at Firefox and Thunderbird) is the real star
in their stable and many people would like to use it
without being forced to deal with the other
complicated, overengineered technologies surrounding
it.
Source: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/381625
Do you agree with Jon Perez that there's not much value in Mozilla XUL as long as its bound to the overengineered RDF, XPCOM, XPInstall, XPFE, XBL and so on machinery?
- Gerald
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