Re: Re: Meta-level questions GUI. Gecko?

 --- Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: 
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 18:27:13 -0700, Roger Binns
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Great.  You can help me do a wrapper for wxNet/html
> that is so awesome it
> makes Prothon the standard for cross GUI/web
> programming.  We'll come up
> with a whole new object paradigm that makes it
> trivial to program and we'll
> implement this new paradigm with prototypes.
> 

I was wondering...what about using mozilla gecko? The
mozilla firefox download is relatively small (<5MB on
win32 and 8MB on linux) and they are working on a GRE
or XRE, a small runtime that all mozilla-based apps
can use (firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, nvue). You
could maybe use XPCOM to gain access to the gecko
objects. Using gecko would give you:

- Easy GUI programming (with XUL)
- internet / web libraries (xml, html, svg, css)
- cross-platform use

There are also some interesting points:

- mozilla low level is in C/C++(?) but higher
application level logic is in javascript
- javascript is prototype-based so the object wrappers
are already designed for prototype-based language
- possibility to use prothon in web-pages (client-side
scripting) which could quickly increase user-base
- prothon is far more full-featured compared to
javascript and imho, many would find it attractive

Since you're looking at various alternatives, you
might want to look at this as well. Consider also that
the mozilla guys *are* addressing the .net issue - not
necessarily embracing it, though.

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