IE is the most common GUI platform out there. It is also the easiest platform to write for, at least for me, given that it's what I do for a living. (I write webapps on Unix to be viewed by IE6.)

My meditation on the subject (which seems to have kicked this spate off) wasn't intended on using IE as a replacement for Tk or any other GUI toolkit. I wanted to know the following things:

  1. Is this even possible?
  2. Is this practical?
  3. Are there any major holes this would expose?
  4. Are there any major holes this would be using?

The reason I wanted to know it was to create very small applications (utilities, really), primarily for myself and my wife. One of my major annoyances with my life is that I have Win32 at home, work on Unix, and can't meld the two. I can't really change the Win32 and don't have the time to get a stable LAMP box running. This would be an ideal compromise, in my mind.

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

In reply to Re: HTML as a GUI: part 32,523rd by dragonchild
in thread HTML as a GUI: part 32,523rd by BUU

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