David Ascher writes: > > That said, Mozilla does have a fairly strong vision for the future, allows > some of the benefits of the web technologies to transfer to the GUI world > (designers, not coders, can do the UI work). Sounds great for the future, but I want to inject a few of my unsolicated, opinionated observations - today, in 2000, the Mozilla stuff is *far* from usable. If you want to produce nice, professional looking GUI apps which fit nicely with the desktop (rather that having their own completely different look-and-feel) it's hard to beat Gtk+ or Tkinter. Tkinter is still quite viable, especially if cross-plaform support is important. Some of the examples in Grayson's book are quite beautiful. It will be a long time until XPFE/XUL/whatchamacallit gets to this level of viability. Also consider that Sun (and HP?) now ship Gnome by default, rather than CDE (or so I hear, anyway). I predict that Gnome compatibility will become more and more of a desirable feature. Evidence of the above is the "Galeon" project. It's widely perceived that Mozilla has a nice rendering engine (Gecko) wrapped up in a dreadful GUI (XPFE). So the Galeon project places the Gecko engine inside a Gtk+/Gnome GUI, which provides a much more pleasant user experience. There's also a (preliminary) port of Gtk+ to Win32: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ And, finally, IMO, the work being done on PyGtk is of high quality. I'm using it currently in production code.
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