[Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: Win 10 IOT Core

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/20/2015 09:52 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> That is simply the wrong way of doing things.
> With browsers or webviews what they are today, you can do all display 
> logic in the browser.
> The server just needs to provide the suitable data.
>
Of course I do agree that it would be a lot nicer to have a remote GUI 
that supports displaying forms on a browser (and in fact I do have a 
device (QNAP NAS) that does this in a way that looks and feels very 
similar to what is standard with a Lazarus Application. I did not find 
out whether they did their own Java Script Widget implementation or if 
they licensed a 3rd party product for that.

But I don't see how somebody will start a new project similar to 
EXTPascal, that needs a lot of Java Script knowledge and supposedly will 
only be able to support a basic set of the LCL Widgets. Moreover the 
HTTP protocol is a bad choice for remoting a GUI, as it does not 
decently support server->Client signaling.

Moreover such devices often need to provide a standard web server at the 
same time, and sit behind a firewall/Proxy, making a deployment even 
harder.

-Michael