On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Stephen Tetley
Claus Reinke posted this a while ago - see the attachment at the bottom of the message:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-July/029275.html
Thanks for that. Here's the relevant website that he posted later in that thread: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/toolbox/haskell/browsing/ Of course, it would be nice to be able to write the "javascript" parts in Haskell, and even use a Haskell framework for generating the HTML. I'm sure this is possible with things like Yesod, etc. Just wanted to mention, currently I am working on a project (not in Haskell) that takes a similar approach of starting up an HTTP server and using the browser for the GUI. We are thinking about including a copy of Chromium in the binary release, and launching it on double-click with the "--app" flag which opens a "chromeless" browser window (i.e just a window border containing an HTML renderer) looking just like a local application. Another option is XULRunner, which you can use to create an application with native menus and widgets around the border, and add a "<browser>" element to the GUI which points at your Haskell web server. You could probably even generate the XUL layout code in the Haskell server if you wanted, which would provide a totally native-looking app. (At least for those who don't consider Firefox very awful-looking, I know there are some Cocoa pedants around who would complain.. ;) Steve