[Haskell-cafe] Re: Design question, HTML for GUIs?

[Stephen Tetley]

2010/1/15 Günther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de>:
> Thank you guys for all your responses.
>
> I just came accross something called HTML-Dialogs. It's mentioned in the
> ANNOUNCE files of the 0.26 source package of HaskellDirect. Apparently it
> takes about (on Windows) using HTML to create GUIs and scripting the
> Internet Explorer via COM.
>
> That would eliminate the need to use a webserver.
>
> Does anyone here know more about it, I tried to google it, but guess how
> much comes up when the only keywords you have is "Internet Explorer HTML
> Dialogs".
>


Sounds like "Client-side web scripting with HaskellScript" - Erik
Meijier, Daan Leijen and James Hook from PADL'99

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/emeijer/publications/client-side-web-scripting.pdf

http://www.haskell.org/haskellscript/

Best wishes

Stephen