On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:

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?

http://chrisdone.com/tags/javascript.html

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!