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Re: Browsers as stand-alone UI

by stvn (Monsignor)
on Apr 07, 2004 at 18:07 UTC ( [id://343364]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Browsers as stand-alone UI

dragonchild

One (possible) solution is to use HTML Applications. They are essentially just a local instance of IE without some of the browser chrome and security restrictions that "online" IE has.

Now I haven't used these in a while, and it looks to me that MS is not really that exited about them anymore, so you may hit some barriers that have sprung up since I last used them (back in 2001-2002). I used them with javascript myself (because at the time i was more my language of choice), and was able to do a number of things like read and write text and XML files as well as access an Access DB through ADO. As for using them with perl, i would expect that you can install ActiveState perl as an Active Scripting/Windows Script Host language and use it in HTAs the same way you would use it in ASP pages (although I have never tried this myself, so I may be totally wrong).

If this does not work, there is always Personal Web Server, which is really just IIS with its shoelaces tied together. You would be limited to just plain vanilla CGI most likely (I dont know if you care about that). In my (somewhat limited) experience with it, it was not that much of a resource hog.

-stvn

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