On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Dag Odenhall
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 22:05 +0300, dokondr wrote:
I prefer using Turing complete PL to program web client, like the one
used
in GWT (Java) or Cappuccino (Objective-J). http://cappuccino.org/learn/ In this case you /almost/ don't need to know HTML, CSS, DOM, Ajax, etc. to develop WebUI and good PL lets you concentrate on problem domain instead of bothering about browser support. It is a real pity that Haskell still has no such tools to generate Web GUI in Javascript. (((
Have you seen Chris Done's posts on the subject?
Thanks for the link! (Never seen this before) Ideally, I would be happy to be able to write in Haskell a complete front-end / GUI, so it could be compiled to different back-ends: Javascript to run in the Browser and also a standalone app. In Python world this is already done with Pyjamas (http://pyjs.org/) - "a Rich Internet Application (RIA) Development Platform for both Web and Desktop." Also from Pyjamas site: Pyjamas "... contains a Python-to-Javascript compiler, an AJAX framework and a Widget Set API. Pyjamas Desktop is the Desktop version of Pyjamas Pyjamas Desktop allows the exact same python web application source code to be executed as a standalone desktop application (running under Python) instead of being stuck in a Web browser." Architecture diagram http://pyjs.org/wiki/pyjamasandpyjamasdesktop/ I wonder if somebody works on similar Haskell "Rich Internet Application (RIA) Development Platform" ? Any ideas, comments on implementation of such system in Haskell? What existing Haskell GUI libraries can be used for a desktop GUI, etc.? Thanks!