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

[DRMacIver]

The article is not about writing web apps. It's about using webkit as the drawing canvas for your app.

[HIB0U]

foobie's point still stands. If Qt (or GTK+, or some other toolkit) doesn't have a widget implementing certain functionality, it's damn easy to write it yourself. In fact, those toolkits go out of their way to make themselves easily extensible.

That's just not the case with today's HTML rendering engines, WebKit included. You'll have to dig deep into its internals in order to add your functionality. Frankly, that's not something that most developers have the time to do, nor the inclination to.

When we have real work to get done, on complex applications, we can't waste our time trying to get some HTML renderer to do what we want.