Re: TK in CGI

Davido's answer is right on, but just for the sake of rounding out your knowledge, there is an "attempt" to make a browser plugin, which would allow you to run Tk thru a browser, like a Java application. Look at PerlPlus Plugin. It dosn't work as it should just yet, but there is always hope for the future. :-)

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Re^2: TK in CGI by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 25, 2005 at 15:26 UTC
...there is always hope for the future. For the sake of the future of web browsing, I hope not. ;) It's hard enough to stop popups now. Imagine giving unknown someone Tk-style control of your system. Dave	[reply]
Re^3: TK in CGI by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 26, 2005 at 10:53 UTC
Well, if it's done right, you should have a setting in the browser to turn the plug-in off, like java and javascript can be turned off. I think the bigger concern is security, and it would have to be addressed by making a complete, but functionally limited perl and Tk , to be the standalone plug-in. Just connecting to the system's Perl, is far too big of a risk to run thru cgi. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]