Yes there are now many Javascript libraries that can allow creating many controls in a web application, but they cannot compare with a native desktop GUI.
They can be used pretty well with a mouse, but some of them are very hard or not accessible at all with a keyboard. You might want to search for Prototype, Scriptaculous, DOJO, JQuery, ExtJS, MochiKit, YUI. Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "'Octavian Rasnita'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:46 PM Subject: RE: ActivePerl 822 and Windows GUI look/feel > Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> If you need your application to look and feel like a Windows native >> application, the only choices as far as I know are WxPerl and >> Win32::GUI. If you also need it to be portable, it remains WxPerl. > > Thank you for replying. :-) > > > I've been kicking this one around for many years, trying to find a good > GUI toolkit that is multiplatform, well designed/ documented, and > preferably Perl. Along the way, I've made a couple of explorations of > C#, .NET, etc.. The recently free VCSEE 2005 and 2008 tools are > tempting lures, as are the many C#, .NET, CLR, WinForms, etc., books. > Unfortunately, very few M$ centric books tend to be of the caliber I > desire. I am also leery of mono after experiencing other OSS > implementations of M$ technologies. I do see the advantages of C#, but > Perl is still my preferred language. My requirement for free/OSS > precludes ActiveState's Perl Development Kit and PerlNET. It's a > tangled morass, with no clear winner. > > > Another idea for meeting my previously unstated need for a stand-alone > GUI application (e.g. no Internet connection) would be a self-contained > web application and server running on localhost. I use WampServer for > Drupal testing, and it works very nicely. It's been a few years since I > played with Apache/ *SQL/ Perl, but do recall that HTML controls were > very primitive and the end result was orders of magnitude slower than a > native GUI. Are there better WWW controls for Apache/ Perl/ CGI/ > mod_perl now? Any thoughts on AJAX? > > > TIA, > > David > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
