Günther Schmidt wrote:
as probably most people I find the GUI part of any application to be the hardest part.
It just occurred to me that I *could* write my wxHaskell desktop application as a web app too.
When the app starts, a haskell web server start listening on localhost port 8080 for example and I fire up a browser to page localhost:8080 without the user actually knowing too much about it.
Is that a totally stupid idea?
No, this is not (necessarily) a stupid idea. In fact it might be a good idea in a lot of cases. A downside is, that you lose the functionality for user access control provided by the OS on multi-user machines (i.e., other users working on the same machine can connect to localhost:8080 too). This might or might not be a concern for you. Regards, Jochem -- Jochem Berndsen | jochem@functor.nl | jochem@牛在田里.com