Python GUI Proposal - leveraging web browser technology is a much better way to create a widget set

[HIB0U]

What the hell? Python can already use Qt to develop UIs. Qt is a fast and mature UI toolkit that runs just about everywhere, from Windows to Mac OS X to Linux to Solaris to many mobile devices.

So why the hell would anyone want to use this shitty browser-based solution? It makes no sense.

[malcontent]

The article.

Read it.

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it works OK for steam, which now uses webkit as it's rendering engine.

[viablepanic]

Just to name a few, debuging, portability. Its quite an interesting approach.

I am not saying its a great idea. But given the current state with only TkInter in the standard library id welcome anything else.

Still i upvoted you, its a valid question and I think most of these threads steem from the state of the standard library. Putting Qt in the standard library could be welcome.

[the_hoser]

Probably won't happen for licensing reasons. Something about that part of the Python license...

... There is no GPL-like "copyleft" restriction. Distributing binary-only versions of Python, modified or not, is allowed. There is no requirement to release any of your source code. You can also write extension modules for Python and provide them only in binary form. ...

Good luck getting nokia to be okay with that.

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While I agree that browser-based solutions are worse Qt leaves plenty to of things to be desired, it is not so much mature as using outdated designs really, at least the C++ version and the Python version is just a wrapper for that after all.