1000 GUI toolkits

[Gregoire Welraeds]

In reply to the message of Terry Reedy sent on Feb 24 (see below) :

PDF not interactive ?

Quartz, new graphic layer for the next mac GUI (called aqua), will be a
mix of pdf and display postscript.

Window will be drawned and animated with postcript / pdf. 

not interactive ?


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Gregoire Welraeds
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Terry Reedy wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:15:03 -0500
> From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Re: 1000 GUI toolkits
> 
> "Gerrit Holl" <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> wrote in message
> > HTML is not designed to be interactive, so HTML should not be used
> interactive.
> 
> HUH?  pdf is not interactive, HTML is, with links and forms.
> Many web sites (take Ebay for instance) are almost completely interactive,
> with just a few prewritten pages.
> 
> > If you rewrite Pysol in HTML, you'll get a prize.
> 
> Agreed that fine-grained interaction, such as with games, is a poor
> application for HTML.
> 
> Terry J. Reedy
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