[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/30/2013 09:08 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote: ...

If course I do remember very well, how ifi works. For me, it is a really 
great idea to decently physically separate the "business logic" from the 
GUI without completely loosing the "RAD" features Delphi, Lazarus and 
mseGUI provide. At best you could develop the program with a local GUI 
and then set a switch to compile it as an ifi Server.

Regarding the OP's question:

I suppose regarding ifi "socket" includes "WebSockets". So the server 
site seems to be in place.

As the "ifi" byte stream is well defined, it should be possible to do 
the server and the client in different languages/environments. Thus as a 
client "Browser plugin" you could do a pascal program, which seemingly 
would be rather easy to do, but would need installing it at the client 
site, which in some environments (we did get burnt :( ) is impossible 
due to IT guide lines (aka incompetence).

Thus other ways could be considered:
  - compiling the pascal code with Delphi Prism to a CIL plugin and use 
Silverlight / Moonlight to run it in the browser sandbox.
  - re-implement the client site of the library in java script.

-Michael