[Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

[Cameron Laird]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:40:59AM -0500, Kevin Buchs wrote:
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> It sounds like you have a good plan. If I wanted to future-proof a project
> like that, I would probably implement it as an HTML5/CSS/javascript
> generator and use a browser to navigate it. That would put the future-proof
> requirement above any desire to learn GUI programming. Almost any GUI
> implementation today may be outdated in 20 years. 20 years ago I was writing
> C-code talking to Xlib for GUI development. Today the world is very
> different.
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I'm as fond of Tkinter as anyone, and continue to work in it;
HTML5 is the way of the future, though.

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