Ed,
In a recent post you said:
Dabo is not a web framework like either of those [Django and Web2py]. Are
you looking to do strictly web development, or are you looking for a rich
client framework like Dabo?
I'd like to hear what you mean by rich client here. I've heard of fat and
thin
Rich is another way of saying desktop. IOW, apps that don't run
in a browser.
[snip]
Have you seen my PyCon 2009 talk? It's available online at
http://blip.tv/file/1947542/
Most of the time when people say web-based, they mean running in a
browser using HTML as the main UI. In my
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, jpoorra...@aol.com wrote:
What are the downsides of browser-based apps?
None.
Assuming, of course, that you prefer programming in Javascript rather
than Python.
-- Ed Leafe
___
Post Messages to:
In a message dated 10/12/2009 1:46:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
e...@leafe.com writes:
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:40 PM, jpoorra...@aol.com wrote:
What are the downsides of browser-based apps?
None.
Assuming, of course, that you prefer programming in Javascript rather
than Python.
On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:04 PM, jpoorra...@aol.com wrote:
But are there downsides for the user?
Depends on the user. Some prefer the Gmail interface; others prefer
Thunderbird, Mail.app or Outlook.
I took another look at your talk, and it seems you're saying that the
desktop
On Monday 12 October 2009 02:06:51 pm Ed Leafe wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I find even the advanced UIs of toolkits such
as jQuery or ExtJS to be passable, but gravely lacking compared to
OSX, Gnome or KDE. And to do that stuff in browsers, you're stuck with
Javascript. I guess I'm
On Monday 12 October 2009 03:39:44 pm Ed Leafe wrote:
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:13 PM, John wrote:
What is your opinion of Pyjamas? I have not used it yet but was
considering
using it to create the UI for a website. Is it better from a python
point of
view? Or would one be better off
