HtmlPy
Languages and libraries
gui library
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How HN took it
0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks like a lot of work and thought went into it
From 1 comment
It looks like a lot of work and thought went into this library. I'd love to give it a shot except that I have no idea what the output might look like.
guiscreenshots on HN
Objections
Uses QtWebKit, which is deprecated and unmaintained
From 1 comment
> htmlPy is a wrapper around PySide's QtWebKit library... Based on my experience using Qt (via PyQt) this is kind of puzzling, and the very limited doc doesn't do much to…
fernly on HN
Web-based GUIs use more memory and look less native
From 2 comments
Where an entire app is based on a Qt main window, it can display HTML-encoded or Javascript-encoded content in a QWebView widget. So it's another one of these "web everything"…
userbinator on HN> htmlPy is a wrapper around PySide's QtWebKit library... Based on my experience using Qt (via PyQt) this is kind of puzzling, and the very limited doc doesn't do much to…
fernly on HN
Uses global state in example code
From 1 comment
When i saw the example code, the first thing that is see is the use of globals: ``` from main import app app.html ``` This is a reason i would never use a library like this.…
TeeWEE on HN
No screenshots of GUIs made with it
From 1 comment
I'd like to dig into this, but for all I know, it could produce horrible GUIs. Why isn't there even a single screenshot of a GUI made with this library?
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Requests
Show screenshots of GUIs built with the library
From 1 comment
I'd like to dig into this, but for all I know, it could produce horrible GUIs. Why isn't there even a single screenshot of a GUI made with this library?
markdown on HN
Questions
Why use this over plain HTML/CSS or Bootstrap
From 1 comment
Can someone explain why this is useful over standard HTML/CSS or Bootstrap? Feels like I'm missing the point...
siquick on HN
What the output looks like
From 1 comment
It looks like a lot of work and thought went into this library. I'd love to give it a shot except that I have no idea what the output might look like.
guiscreenshots on HN
Alternatives named
Electron (Atom)
From 1 comment
It is somewhat comparable to Atoms Electron if you are familiar with that, but instead of having node.js backend this one has pyside backend.
zokier on HN
Qt native widgets
From 1 comment
The irony is, Qt _IS_ a cross-platform GUI, where you build your UI once and it looks like Windows on Windows, Mac OS on Mac OS, and the look of whatever window manager on Linux.
fernly on HN
QtWebEngine
From 1 comment
> htmlPy is a wrapper around PySide's QtWebKit library... Based on my experience using Qt (via PyQt) this is kind of puzzling, and the very limited doc doesn't do much to…
fernly on HN