Yes there are now many Javascript libraries that can allow creating many 
controls in a web application, but they cannot compare with a native desktop 
GUI.

They can be used pretty well with a mouse, but some of them are very hard or 
not accessible at all with a keyboard.

You might want to search for Prototype, Scriptaculous, DOJO, JQuery, ExtJS, 
MochiKit, YUI.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist@[...].com> 
To: <activeperl@[...].com> 
Cc: "'Octavian Rasnita'" <orasnita@[...].com> 
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: RE: ActivePerl 822 and Windows GUI look/feel


>  Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > If you need your application to look and feel like a Windows native
> > application, the only choices as far as I know are WxPerl and
> > Win32::GUI. If you also need it to be portable, it remains WxPerl.
> 
>  Thank you for replying.  :-)
> 
> 
>  I've been kicking this one around for many years, trying to find a good
>  GUI toolkit that is multiplatform, well designed/ documented, and
>  preferably Perl.  Along the way, I've made a couple of explorations of
>  C#, .NET, etc..  The recently free VCSEE 2005 and 2008 tools are
>  tempting lures, as are the many C#, .NET, CLR, WinForms, etc., books.
>  Unfortunately, very few M$ centric books tend to be of the caliber I
>  desire.  I am also leery of mono after experiencing other OSS
>  implementations of M$ technologies.  I do see the advantages of C#, but
>  Perl is still my preferred language.  My requirement for free/OSS
>  precludes ActiveState's Perl Development Kit and PerlNET.  It's a
>  tangled morass, with no clear winner.
> 
> 
>  Another idea for meeting my previously unstated need for a stand-alone
>  GUI application (e.g. no Internet connection) would be a self-contained
>  web application and server running on localhost.  I use WampServer for
>  Drupal testing, and it works very nicely.  It's been a few years since I
>  played with Apache/ *SQL/ Perl, but do recall that HTML controls were
>  very primitive and the end result was orders of magnitude slower than a
>  native GUI.  Are there better WWW controls for Apache/ Perl/ CGI/
>  mod_perl now?  Any thoughts on AJAX?
> 
> 
>  TIA,
> 
>  David
>  

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