> > > In addition the widgets as such might be rendered differently for > > different platforms (in Smalltalk in one of the GUI frameworks, an > > example was Squeak Morphic and MVC ) or outside (e.g. Kivy). > > > > @Hilaire, what do you think is outstanding of special about Kivy? > > > > I think to illustrate this it might be a nice experiment to develop a > > 'hello world' equivalent for GUI construction and have it rendered in > > as many user interface languages as possible (Kivy, various types of > > Morphic, Bloc etc., but as PPTX and ODP) >
Theoretically speaking this is already possible with Spec, which is backend-independent GUI framework connected to backends (Morphic) via adapters. It would be an interesting proof-of-concept to implement other backends such as HTML without touching Spec. Peter
