[Tutor] Starting a browser instance and passing a parameter to it.

[Eric Brunson]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Don Taylor wrote:
>   
>> Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> What are you using for the XML-RPC server? Doesn't that need to be a
>>> web server of some sort anyhow? XML-RPC communicates using http...
>>>
>>>       
>> I am using simpleXMLRPCServer.  Yes, XML-RPC does use http as its 
>> transport protocol, but it does not have to run in the context of a 
>> web-server.  You can run XML-RPC 'under' CGI but that costs a lot in 
>> performance (continual re-loads) and, more importantly, forces a REST 
>> model on to the XML-RPC server.  I am treating XML-RPC as a socket 
>> server that happens to use http for its transport.
>>
>>     
>>> You seem to be making a fairly easy task very complicated.
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, quite possibly.  Just for fun, I am experimenting with ways to 
>> build portable desktop GUI applications - where portability includes 
>> independence from window managers.  I am trying to use a browser as the 
>> window manager for a (Python) application.
>>     
>
> I can't decide if this is brilliant or crazy or both :-)
>
> I guess what you get from XMLRPC is an almost-free way to expose 
> functions to the browser. But it forces you to build the UI entirely in 
> javascript.
>
> I wonder if you wouldn't be better off starting with a simple web server 
> such as CherryPy and building a standard web application on that...you 
> would be swimming with the stream then, instead of across it.
>   

Definitely,  or even just CGIHTTPServer.

>  > I plan to use something like Google Web Toolkit for the browser-side
>  > code.  GWT (and many others tools and libraries) abstracts away browser
>  > differences.  I don't plan to manipulate the browser DOM directly.
>
> GWT is targeted to Java developers, probably something like Dojo or YUI 
> would be more appropriate.
>
> Kent
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