On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:02 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: > On Tue, October 9, 2007 2:46 pm, Brad Douglas wrote: > > Are you suggesting that everyone have a working http server on their > > local machine? That is quite an excessive (and generally insecure) > > method of accomplishing the given goal, locally. > > Well, I'm thinking about a limited http server as part of Xastir, not > necessarily on port 80 (the default http port). It would be similar to the > current Xastir server port. I think we could find code for a simple http > engine to incorporate into the Xastir code that is neither excessive nor > insecure.
If that happens, I will stop using Xastir. It is unreasonable to require users to install and run a web server for a single application. Web GUIs are highly limited in functionality. > > IMO, wxPython is the way to go for GUI development. > > My suggested approach would let people develop a GUI in multiple environments > and provide a standard "API" to facilitate this development. This is not practical, IMO. -- 73, de Brad KB8UYR/6 <rez touchofmadness com> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir