Development/deployment and maintenance for a multi-platform GUI is non-trivial.ĭeveloping good user-interfaces is hard, period. There are many, many standalone GUI applications that are just terrible, no argument.

Even with Ajax, javascript and dynamic, responsive interfaces are non-trivial to implement/debug.

No two browsers available today render exactly the same.

There are some applications that just don't make sense to develop as browser based apps. I personally would never use (as a user, not developer) a web interface again if I could get away with it.

I understand that 'useful' is subjective. Most like other tools/applications in use on the platform (ie, native).Which UI is the user going to find more useful? Let's pretend for a moment that the development/deployment/maintenance effort/cost is equal and we look at it from the application user's perspective: It would simply be a browser GUI instead of a wxPython/PyQt GUI. All the information would be stored locally on the client computer no server calls would need to be made and no Internet access required (it may come later though).

I was thinking of using Karrigell for the web framework if I go browser-based.Įdit For clarification, as of right now the application would be browser-based, not web-based. The application currently doesn't require Internet access, though it's a possibility in the future. I am considering moving to PyQt because of the widgets it has (for future expansion), then I realized I could probably just use a browser to do much of the same stuff. The application is simply user-entry forms and dialogs. I'm working on a Python program currently implement with wxPython for the GUI. What are the benefits/limitations of using a browser-based interface for a stand-alone application vs.

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find it.

Ui browser app